Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was born in France and ordained a Jesuit priest. Trained as a paleontologist, Teilhard codiscovered the celebrated Peking Man fossils. The Phenomenon of Man is his best-known work.
"[Teilhard's] magnum opis. . . . Pierre Teilhard de Chardin set
down the philosophical framework for planetary, Net-based
consciousness . . . Teilhard saw the internet coming more than half
a century before it arrived. He believed this vast thinking
membrane would ultimately coalesce into 'the living unity of a
single tissue' containing our collective thoughts and
experiences."--Wired
"A profound book of great distinction and originality. . . . A
brilliant synthesis of the evidence with respect to man's
evolutionary direction. . . . I cannot imagine anyone reading this
book who will not be profoundly influenced by it, and who will not
wish to read it several times over, for it is a great work by a
great man--one of the most spiritually erudite of our time."--New
York Times
"In his 1940 magnum opus, "The Phenomenon of Man," Teilhard said
that someday our technology would allow us to create a web of
thought and action that would make the world more complex, diverse
and alive, moving mankind toward ultimate evolution."--Washington
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