The technosphere is Haff's word for the planetary system of technologies and infrastructures that metabolizes energy and materials. I call it an artificial intelligence that already exists, and a limb of the Earth.
How the word moved
In August 2025 I said that if you think of the technosphere as an already existing AI, it already controls our lives. Think The Matrix, minus the leather coats. In October 2025 it became the fourth finger of planetarity, and I called its protocols the new constitutional documents of the Earth. By November 2025 it was the medium through which hyperobjects become something we can grasp at all, with computation as its nervous system.
In my words
"The technosphere is no longer an appendage; it is a limb of the Earth."
from Bhumics: Planetarity as Philosophical Engineering (PAPE), Part 1, 23 Oct 2025
Related
- Related five fingers of planetarity - The technosphere is the fourth finger.
- Related planetary sensorium - Computation is its nervous system.
- Related protocol - Its protocols are the Earth's new constitution.