The #Technosphere refers to the global layer of human-made objects, infrastructure (cities, roads, machines), and systems (internet, finance, agriculture) that now significantly impacts Earth, acting as a new planetary system alongside the biosphere.
#Technosphere
The #Technosphere: The Hidden #CarbonSink : Medium
#SpatialIntelligence Is #AI’s Next #Frontier : Time
How Did the #CIA Lose a #Nuclear Device in the #Himalayas? : NY Times
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
#9ottobre 1963 disastro del #Vajont
L'articolo di Anda Pleniceanu su #Itinera:
"Aesthetics of Control and Absence in the Vajont Disaster ..."
esamina l'intersezione tra #estetica, #memoria e #tecnopolitica attraverso un'analisi del disastro del Vajont e della Chiesa di Longarone progettata da Giovanni Michelucci.
Il controverso progetto di ricostruzione risponde alla violenza fisica, ambientale e simbolica della #diga del Vajont
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/itinera/article/view/29728?mtm_campaign=mastodon
Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate by Steven A. Johnson
https://archive.neural.it/init/default/show/3309
#interfaceculture #interfacedesign #creativetechnology #interactiondesign #digitalcultures #technoculture #technosphere #experiencedesign #mediahistory #mediaarthistory #computerhistory #digitaldesign #graphicdesign #criticaltheory #criticalinformationstudies #mediatheory #mediastudies #digitalhumanities #informationtheory #digitalstudies #mediaculture
People retroactively adjusting to accommodate rushed technology introductions.
#DigitalTransformation is an anti-pattern that pervasively festers in our tech industry. A fallacy that builds on other fallacies, such as the idea that "technology means progress". Result is a #technosphere where people must forcibly adapt, and an environment that greatly benefits #hypercapitalism and #BigTech.
The opposite trend focuses on #SocialFirst, evolves a #sociosphere.
The #DigitalTransformation fallacy is the false belief that technology alone can solve #social problems.
Digital transformation leads us into a #technosphere and vicious spiral where technology is less and less able to serve the needs of people and society.
For healthy technology ecosystems and grassroots standardization process we must broaden focus to #sociosphere.
#ReimagineSocial. Turn #fediverse into #peopleverse 💪
The paradox of decentralization is that the more a technology ecosystem decentralizes, the more need there is for cohesive coordination to assure that the foundational technologies can support that decentralization, without the ecosystem falling apart.
Note: Fediverse with its app-centric development approach leads to ad-hoc interoperability and protocol decay, is de-facto a #technosphere that's unable to solve the paradox. It falls prey to #DigitalTransformationFallacy
2: The Technosphere – Earth’s New, Unruly ‘Kingdom’
(This article is part of a six-post reality-check. Concepts and examples are drawn from “Silent Earth: Adaptations for Life in a Devastated Biosphere.”)
For billions of years, the Earth’s surface was governed by the slow, elegant cycles of the biosphere. But now, a new planetary system has emerged, one of human origin: the technosphere. Coined by geologist Peter Haff, this concept describes the interconnected global network of all our technology—our cities, roads, power grids, and digital networks (Haff 2014). Its physical mass, a staggering 30 trillion tons of concrete, plastic, and metal, now rivals or even exceeds the total mass of all living things on the planet (Zalasiewicz et al. 2017).
This new kingdom has a complex, almost parasitic relationship with its parent. The technosphere depends utterly on the biosphere for energy, raw materials, and waste cycling, yet its very operation disrupts those sustaining systems. Agriculture is a primary example of this hybrid reality, where biological processes are co-opted and amplified by technological intervention, transforming the landscape (Foley et al. 2005).
Now, some propose to use the technosphere to manage the biosphere through geoengineering. These proposals to manipulate Earth’s climate systems carry immense promise and equally immense, uncertain risks (Lawrence et al. 2018).
The emergence of the technosphere as a dominant geological force requires a profound shift in perspective. We are no longer simply a species living within nature; we are the architects and unwitting subjects of a new planetary layer, and we have only just understood its unruly dynamics.
References
Foley, J. A., et al. 2005. Global consequences of land use. Science 309(5734): 570-574.
Haff, P. 2014. Technology as a geological phenomenon: implications for human well-being. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 395(1): 301-309.
Lawrence, M. G., et al. 2018. Evaluating climate geoengineering proposals in the context of the Paris Agreement temperature goals. Nature Communications 9(1): 3734.
Zalasiewicz, J., et al. 2017. The technosphere: its composition, structure, and dynamics. The Anthropocene Review 4(1): 9-28.
New on the #XLtRadar : Time To Stop Cuddling with The Technosphere Cannibalism !? - #Biosphere vs. #Technosphere vs. #Anthropocene .... https://xlterrestrials.substack.com/p/time-to-stop-cuddling-with-the-technosphere
PS. Arnie is my namesake, and in Terminator 2 this #sociosphere molded over #technosphere construct from the future also learned to love its softer side, when it came into contact with #Humanity. Hence the governator meme. 😜
It was where #AI Artiicial intelligence met Alternative intelligence, and knew the latter was worth fighting for.
🤖 Smart robot. Meanwhile we shouldn't build #SkyNet, fedizens. Work in commons and with #people power.
We live in a #technosphere and are being force-fed #DigitalTransformation. See how it destroys the fabric of our #society.
#DelightfulCommons curated lists are inspired by #awesome lists on #Github and I realized they still represent a sterile lab with glaring TL lights and metal glinting everywhere.
In a quest to bring more of the missing #social connecting layers to bridge the gap between tech vs. #people and #humanity, I decided to give things a friendlier makeover.
The objective of Social experience design is to deliver solutions that match 'stakeholder' needs. This includes needs of the people developing the software. #SX has a sustainability-first focus and instead of "FOSS projects" refers to #SOSS initiatives. Sustainable open social systems / software / solution / services. Projects that address the relevant aspect of their #FSDL, the end-to-end Free software development lifecycle.
To add #social layers, beyond #technosphere.
> Still nerd territory [..] #ActivityPub the (still mostly unfulfilled) binding of digital society
Indeed. AP is a network communication protocol for social networking. Something that sits very low in the tech stack.
Fedizens of the future shouldn't even be aware that this open standard protocol is at work deep down in the #technosphere.
Only then can we address "society" and build solutions that address needs in the #sociosphere. This has my focus re: Social experience design, #SX
#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:
Our modern society is built on a #technosphere, where #SocialMedia facilitates our communications and how we interact. #FreeSoftware plays a huge and important role in facilitating all this.
Then merely musing, should #SoftwareFreedom not be considered to be just as nuanced as #FreedomOfSpeech? Are the four #FOSS freedoms reasonable, or are they akin to #FreeSpeech absolutism?
A Planetary Boundary For Geological Resources - Exploring The Limits Of Regional Water Availability
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https://phys.org/news/2025-03-planetary-boundary-geological-resources-exploring.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk5318 <-- shared paper
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https://im-mining.com/2023/04/26/united-thinking-on-mining-water-solutions-can-save-money-and-protect-the-environment-worley-says/ <-- shared industry article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #global #regional #water #hydrology #waterresources #watersecurity #mine #mining #processing #minerals #criticalmetals #energy #products #services #surfacewater #groundwater #naturalresources #resources #geology #ecosphere #technosphere #watermanagement #sustainability #sustainableuselimit #waterconsumption #industry #production #constraints #mineralproduction #economy #economics #model #modeling #coal #iron #copper #gold
Humans are making it increasingly difficult for wildlife to live and reproduce.
Sprawl, accelerated fossil fuel mobility via motor engines and roaming introduced canines makes survival for other than humans risky or impossible. The prosthetic apparatuses of 'man' sends its noisy and polluting tentacles into every nook and cranny where bio-diversity still dwells - 24/7.
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https://theconversation.com/five-ways-humans-have-scuppered-the-love-lives-of-animals-249425
#biodiversity #wildlife #habitat #ecocide #cars #roads #traffic #pets #lawns #machines #pollution #noise #waste #harm #technosphere #HumanDisturbance #extractivism #monoculture #fossilfuels #mowing #deforestation #LoggingImpacts
@frankstrater @dansup @peertube @Gargron
I am not advocating to throw tech at things and see what sticks to the wall. That I call what others dogmatically pursue and think is what people want: #DigitalTransformation
We live in a #technosphere and a big chasm of missing #sociosphere must be bridged.
I'm hobbying along here in #fedi advocacy for years hoping to share dreams of #peopleverse. This I now continue at #SocialCoding movement under the flag of #SocialExperienceDesign (or simply #SX)
#coding --> #socialcoding
#community --> #movement
#users --> #fedizens
and
#technosphere --> #sociosphere
#fediverse --> #peopleverse
#foss --> #soss
and
#socialmedia --> #socialnetworking
#socialgraph --> #socialfabric
#techstack --> #socialstack
#app --> #solution #service
#product --> #socialexperience
and
#dx #ux #ui --> #sx
#project --> #fsdl
#projects --> #ecosystem
#development --> #cocreation
#forge --> #forging
#contributor --> #peer
#contributing --> #peerproduction
#SocialExperienceDesign is pragmatically based on existing show-dont-tell #technosphere and its societal disruption machine. #SX focuses on #sociosphere to bridge tech-to-#people chasm and realign tech-to-#humanity
Does society have social experience?
Does activism count as social experience? Can urgency be JIT lazy-loaded?
Do intrinsic solutions exist?
Can we weave social fabric?
Can we spark commons?
If a technosphere brings new fediverse, can a sociosphere renew our universe?
#FreeWilly? How large is the % of your #WorldImprovement #mission part of the #WickedSolution to #Freedom.
So #SteamboatWilly may surf #society and #life, be #happy again, escape the monster?
For instance if you are #PirateParty.
(Whose HQ astoundingly has no #socials pointing to #HumaneTechnology #SocialWeb channels. No #fediverse or #fedi account AFAICS. So randomly picking @ppdelft )
PP What percentage of our #technosphere is dystopic, needs #patching?
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