By Jennifer Cobb Kresiberg — 1995
An obscure Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, set down the philosophical framework for planetary, Net-based consciousness 50 years ago.
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CLEAR ALL
This is in fact the foundational assumption behind our notion of universal human rights: we are all conscious, and thus we all have needs and we all suffer.
It’s a surprising answer that looks far from obvious, but space joins a long list of candidates as old as the written word.
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