Technosphere

Technosphere interaction chart

The purpose of this page is, for a start, to collect good publicly accessible online sources dealing with the concept of "technosphere" as the aggregate of human technical artifacts and the related infrastructure that should be analyzed for being possibly quasi-autonomous. The technosphere is argued to have a huge mass and enormous diversity of form. The term sees much rarer use than "biosphere". This page may be extended for a broader purpose in future.

A less common word denoting a similar concept is "anthroposphere".

See also

• Technology as a threat or promise for life and its forms

Further reading

• Earth's 'technosphere' now weighs 30 trillion tons, research finds, 2016, phys.org
• Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: a geological perspective by Zalasiewicz et al. (25 authors), 2017
• The unbearable burden of the technosphere by Jan Zalasiewicz, 2018, unesco.org
• Technosphere, Vienna Anthropocene Network, univie.ac.at
• Technosphere Magazine, anthropocene-curriculum.org
• W:Anthroposphere