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Jennifer Cobb

Strategic Communications and Technology Leader

Jennifer Cobb is a communications and technology strategist known for her leadership in both the nonprofit and corporate sectors. She most recently served as the executive director of United for News, a joint venture between Internews and the World Economic Forum, after holding the role of VP of Communications and Private Development at Internews. With extensive experience in strategic planning, marketing, and communications, Cobb has contributed to a range of early stage and established organizations—from venture-backed technology companies including BEA, Sybase, IDG, Lotus Development, and Hewlett-Packard to nonprofits such as the Computerworld Honors Awards, which she founded, and the Rockwood Leadership Institute, which she co-founded. An accomplished author, she explored the intersection of technology and spirituality in her 1998 book, Cybergrace: The Search for God in the Digital World. Her academic background includes studies at Amherst College and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a master’s degree from Union Theological Seminary.

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Boris Shoshitaishvili

From Anthropocene to Noosphere

Since 1950, humanity has accelerated its population growth, energy use, and release of greenhouse gases, along with a variety of other environmentally and socio-economically significant trends. Taken together, this set of accelerated human-driven trends has been called the “Great Acceleration,” and its occurrence helps explain recent climate change and ecological disturbance. In this article, I explore two dominant but divergent paradigms for what is happening to our species as it becomes globalized and continues in the Great Acceleration. One of the paradigms is related to the newly proposed geological epoch of the “Anthropocene” (the Age of the Human Being), which sees the Great Acceleration as a rupture in our relationship to the Earth System. The other paradigm centers on the concept of a “Noosphere” (a sphere of thought) and proposes that human beings are forming a planetary awareness through these interlocking and accelerating trends. I argue that we need to learn from both paradigms to achieve a balanced understanding of the Great Acceleration.