Infosphere is a neologism composed of information and sphere. The first documented use of the word "InfoSphere" was a 1971 Time Magazine book review by R.Z. Sheppard in which he writes "In much the way that fish cannot conceptualize water or birds the air, man barely understands his infosphere, that encircling layer of electronic and typographical smog composed of cliches from journalism, entertainment, advertising and government.

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  • Infosphere is a neologism composed of information and sphere. The first documented use of the word "InfoSphere" was a 1971 Time Magazine book review by R.Z. Sheppard in which he writes "In much the way that fish cannot conceptualize water or birds the air, man barely understands his infosphere, that encircling layer of electronic and typographical smog composed of cliches from journalism, entertainment, advertising and government. " In 1980 it was used by Alvin Toffler in his book The Third Wave in which he writes "What is inescapabily clear, whatever we choose to believe, is that we are altering our infosphere fundametally... we are adding a whole new strata of communication to the social system. The emerging Third Wave infosphere makes that of the Second Wave era - dominated by its mass media, the post office, and the telephone - seem hopelessly primitive by contrast". The Toffler definition proved prophetic as the use of "Infosphere" in the 1990s expanded beyond media to speculate about the common evolution of the Internet, society and culture. In his book "Digital Dharma," Steven Vedro writes, "Emerging from what French philosopher-priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin called the shared noosphere of collective human thought, invention and spiritual seeking, the Infosphere is sometimes used to conceptualize a field that engulfs our physical, mental and etheric bodies; it affects our dreaming and our cultural life. Our evolving nervous system has been extended, as media sage Marshall McLuhan predicted in the early 1960s, into a global embrace. " The term was used by Dan Simmons in the science-fiction saga Hyperion (published 1989) to indicate what the Internet could become in the future: a place parallel, virtual, formed of billions of networks, with "artificial life" on various scales, from what is equivalent to an insect (small programs) to what is equivalent to a god (artificial intelligences), whose motivations are diverse, seeking to both help mankind and harm it. The term has also been used by Luciano Floridi, on the basis of biosphere, to denote the whole informational environment constituted by all informational entities (thus including informational agents as well), their properties, interactions, processes and mutual relations. It is an environment comparable to, but different from cyberspace (which is only one of its sub-regions, as it were), since it also includes off-line and analogue spaces of information. According to Floridi, it is possible to equate the Infosphere to the totality of Being. This equation leads him to an informational ontology. The IBM Software Group created the InfoSphere brand in 2008 for its Information Management software products.
  • Mit dem Begriff Infosphäre bezeichnet man anschaulich das weltumspannende Netz aus Informationssystemen sowie die daraus sich entwickelnden neuen Formen der Kommunikation und Informationsnutzung. Es handelt sich um eine Wortschöpfung aus den beiden Begriffen Information und Biosphäre, die veranschaulichen soll, dass sich der globale Informationsfluss ähnlich der Atmosphäre rund um den Globus ausgebreitet hat und ihn gewissermaßen umgibt. Siehe auch: Medientheorie, Ende der Gutenberg-Galaxis, Noosphäre, Informationsgesellschaft
  • Terme utilisé par Dan Simmons dans la saga de science-fiction Hypérion pour désigner ce que pourrait devenir Internet dans le futur : un "lieu" parallèle, virtuel, formé de milliards de réseaux, où émergent des formes de "vie artificielle" allant de l'équivalent d'un insecte (les petits programmes) à l'équivalent d'un dieu, dont les motivations sont diverses : aider l'espèce humaine ou au contraire lui nuire ? Ce terme est à rapprocher de la noosphère, utilisé par Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955). (D'ailleurs le personnage de Paul Duré est un disciple de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin dans le roman Hypérion de Dan Simmons). Terme utilisé par Luciano Floridi pour désigner l'espace sémantique constitué de la totalité des documents, des agents et de leurs opérations. Par « documents » on entend tout type de données, d’informations et de connaissances, codifiées et implémentées dans n’importe quel format sémiotique, sans aucune limite de taille, de typologie ni de structure syntaxique. Aujourd’hui, l’intérêt se focalise sur le monde des réseaux numériques, mais l’infosphère inclut également les récits oraux, les films télévisés, les textes imprimés et les programmes radiophoniques. Le terme d’« agents » fait référence à tout système capable d’interagir avec un document de façon autonome, comme par exemple une personne, une organisation ou un robot logiciel sur le Web. En réalité, un agent dans l’infosphère est un type spécial de document, capable d’interagir de manière autonome (il suffit de penser à son profil individuel comme client d’une banque). Enfin, par « opérations », on doit comprendre tout type d’action, d’interaction et de transformation qui peut être effectué par un agent et auxquelles peut être soumis un document. Infosphère est un néologisme construit sur le modèle de biosphère. D’après Luciano Floridi, ce terme a été introduit vers le milieu des années 1990, dans le cadre de recherches visant à analyser le nouveau milieu dans lequel les différentes composantes de la société de l’information sont à l’œuvre.
  • Col termine infosfera si intende lo spazio semantico costituito dalla totalità dei documenti, degli agenti e delle loro operazioni. L'infosfera deve avere le caratteristiche di logicità e ipertestualità; ed essere cartesianamente "pieno". Inoltre deve essere finito, ma potenzialmente illimitato.
  • Infosfera é um neologismo criado pelo filósofo da informação Luciano Floridi e que faz referência a um complexo ambiente informacional constituído por todas as entidades informacionais, suas propriedades, interações, processos e demais relações.
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  • Infosphere is a neologism composed of information and sphere. The first documented use of the word "InfoSphere" was a 1971 Time Magazine book review by R.Z. Sheppard in which he writes "In much the way that fish cannot conceptualize water or birds the air, man barely understands his infosphere, that encircling layer of electronic and typographical smog composed of cliches from journalism, entertainment, advertising and government.
  • Mit dem Begriff Infosphäre bezeichnet man anschaulich das weltumspannende Netz aus Informationssystemen sowie die daraus sich entwickelnden neuen Formen der Kommunikation und Informationsnutzung. Es handelt sich um eine Wortschöpfung aus den beiden Begriffen Information und Biosphäre, die veranschaulichen soll, dass sich der globale Informationsfluss ähnlich der Atmosphäre rund um den Globus ausgebreitet hat und ihn gewissermaßen umgibt.
  • Col termine infosfera si intende lo spazio semantico costituito dalla totalità dei documenti, degli agenti e delle loro operazioni. L'infosfera deve avere le caratteristiche di logicità e ipertestualità; ed essere cartesianamente "pieno". Inoltre deve essere finito, ma potenzialmente illimitato.
  • Infosfera é um neologismo criado pelo filósofo da informação Luciano Floridi e que faz referência a um complexo ambiente informacional constituído por todas as entidades informacionais, suas propriedades, interações, processos e demais relações.
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