Earth has had a geosphere, atmosphere and biosphere for a few billion years. Only within the last several thousand years has earth gained a global noosphere, the intangible 'sphere' of human thought and communication on earth. Now, anthropologist Félix Pharand has mapped an even newer addition to the Anthropocene's profusion of next natural spheres.
The utilisphere consists of the planet's utilities and transportation networks: highways, railroads, pipelines and fiber optic cables. By making his animation without labels or city names, Pharand invites us to view the spiderweb shape of the utilisphere as something more organic, approaching the freshwater hydrosphere in complexity.
Via Gizmodo
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