NEVER SAY NEW Dick Pountain wrote in the June issue of PC Pro, a
computer magazine, "Thinking about all this tempts me, much against
my better judgement, to coin a new word: the 'psychosphere'." He
used PSYCHOSPHERE, and the adjective PSYCHOSPHERIC, to describe the
whole human world, considered as a massively connected network that
includes idea, words or thoughts (such as Richard Dawkins's memes)
plus rituals, dances and other physical behaviours. Unfortunately,
he has been beaten to its invention by a man he has certainly never
heard of, the late Dr Charles Redway Dryer, an American professor.
Dr Dryer introduced the word in his 1905 book, Lessons of Physical
Geography. See the OED. Sorry, Dick.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
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