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In Vernadsky'sVladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky ( March 12, 1863, N. February 28, O. January 6 1945) was a Russian mineralogist and geochemist who first popularized the concept of the noosphere and deepened the idea biosphere to the meaning largely recognized by today's sci theory, the noosphere is the third in a succession of phases of development of the earth, after the geosphereGeosphere is another term for the lithosphere of the Earth. If one is speaking of a chunk of stuff floating around in space other than the Earth itself, "lithosphere" would be more correct because it comes from "lithos" meaning "rock" (instead of "geos" w (inanimate matter) and the biosphere (biological life). Just as the emergence of life fundamentally transformed the geosphere, the emergence of human cognitionThe term cognition is used in several different loosely related ways. In psychology it is used to refer to the mental processes of an individual, with particular relation to a view that argues that the mind has internal mental states (such as beliefs, des fundamentally transforms the biosphere. In contrast to the conceptions of Teilhard de Chardin, the GaiaGaia also spelled as "Gaea", "Gaia", or "Ge", can refer to any one of the following: GAIA is the acronym of "Global Alternate Information Applications" an indian organisation working in media with alternative content Gaia is a Greek and Roman goddess, als theorists, or the promoters of cyberspace, Vernadsky's noosphere is not something that is just now coming into being, or will emerge in the future; it arrived with the birth of the first cognitive human being, and is manifested throughout the biosphere in the form of human intervention, which principally takes the form of economic development of the planet.

History of this expression:

E. LeRoy's Les origines humaines et l'evolution de l'intelligence ( 1928)