© Pierre Lévy & CRC-IC U. of Ottawa From Cyberspace to Noosphere Prof. Pierre Lévy Canada Research Chair on Collective Intelligence University of Ottawa Parma, Minerva Symposium, November 2003

Evolution of Human Language Ubiquity and interconnection of ideas in cyberspace. Autonomous capacity of action of certain species of writing (i.e. software life and robotics). Technical self-reproduction of the alphabet and images. telephone, cinema, sound recording, electronic media Writing becomes universal and digital. Language get an autonomous technical memory. Oral transmission, myths, rites, memory inscribed in matter.Orality Writing Alphabet Printing press Cyberspace Noosphere : real time vizualisation of the global Collective Intelligence dynamics

© Pierre Lévy & CRC-IC U. of Ottawa Collective Intelligence Mirror FROM CYBERSPACE TO NOOSPHERE Perception Sensors everywhere recording data Wifi broadband interactive telecommunication Memory General interconnection of all the documents Search engines fed and guided by collective Intelligence Action Cooperative design of complex systems Reasoning Collective deliberation assisted by cyberspace Complex phenomena graphic simulation Commu nication Multi-user virtual worlds for game, learning and cooperation Skills search engines & on line competence assessment Robots / knowbots societies Identity Cyberspace immune system Bandwidth Digital storage Computational Power Inter connections

The scientific basis of the Noosphere will be a CI-oriented semantic web. The future CI-semantic web will compute a graphic 3D simulation of the hypercomplex human Collective Intelligence processes. Historic comparisons : modern cartography, telescope, microscope, medical images, cyclotrons, radio-astronomic observatories, satellite images, etc. Making the Invisible Visible

© Pierre Lévy & CRC-IC U. of Ottawa Enhancing Harmony The cultural life is increasingly traveling or being described through cyberspace. In addressing the digital transactions and informations according to an universal ontology, the future semantic web can become the Noosphere The Noosphere will translate the chaotic digital data flow which conveys the cultural life into a meaningful whole reflecting human Collective Intelligence.

© Pierre Lévy & CRC-IC U. of Ottawa Cherishing Diversity The Collective Intelligence Ontology is structured like an open, hypertextual, fractal, peer to peer (P2P) network of concepts. It proposes a scientific model of CI. As an universal ontology, the CIO values and promotes cultural diversity (memory), cultural differentiation (exploration) and cultural evolution (learning).

© Pierre Lévy, CRC, Université dOttawa 7 SEMANTIC WEB Real data from cyberspace, organized by a CI ontology Dynamic mapping of Collective Intelligence Decision support system for human development CYBERSPACE INTERDEPENDANT DATA REPOSITORIES, DATA FLUX AND DIGITAL TRANSACTIONS Collective Intelligence MIRROR NOOSPHERE NOOSPHERE Scientific image of Cyberspace

© Pierre Lévy & CRC-IC U. of Ottawa The Human Cultural Heritage will be the « rosebud » of the Noosphere Libraries and museums are converging in the cyberspace on a global scale. The digital convergence of the human cultural heritage should be organized by a meta-ontology, or universal ontology, based on a scientific model of CI. After walking on the moon and deciphering the human genome, the Noosphere Project should be our next big leading scientific and cultural project. The people responsible of the human cultural heritage, should be the first to commit themselves to the Noosphere Project.

© Pierre Lévy & CRC-IC U. of Ottawa The All-inclusive « Religion » of Noosphere One single commandment : - All human cultural heritages are sacred. One single Temple of the Noosphere : - The Temple contains all the human cultural heritages. One single economic rule : - The sacred cultural heritages of the human kind are free common goods.

Collective Intelligence creation Noosphere Creative Loop Consciousness begins with memory