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Cyberspace as Global Awareness

Regardless of the meaning of the concept of Cyberspace referred to science fiction, the concept has also been installed as a term referring to the atmosphere of free exchange of information knowledge and techniques, a public space for the exchange of information and knowledge deployment a collective intelligence network and coordination of people and linked across multiple devices around free information generating machines. Wikipedia is, in this sense, the paradigmatic project.

This idea of ​​cyberspace is presented as an appropriate entity to be an expression of what has been called the technological Singularity authors like Raymond Kurzweil have theorized on the subject of hyperbolic growth of the advancement of technology and the development of artificial intelligence. This position is defended by authors such as Hugo Baronti, who establishes a tension or counterpoint between the shortsightedness and commercial end of cyberspace, linked to a more pragmatic view on Internet (Web 2.0) and a vision more closely tied to the formation of a conscience Global artificial hybrid planetary scale, based on several classics of sociology as Marx, Durkheim, Herbert Spencer, Gabriel Tarde and the communication theorist Marshall McLuhan, establishing theoretical relationships with ideas like Raymond Kurzweil or projects like Principia cybernetics, linked to Global Consciousness Project at Princeton University and theories about the noosphere, driven by Russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky with theoretical cross raised by the priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.