In Tom Wolfe’s essay, “Digibabble, Fairy Dust, and the Human Anthill,” Wolfe utilizes his knowledge of sociobiology to explain the concepts of “convergence” and the “noosphere”, which are thought to be precursors to the World Wide Web, i.e., the Digital Universe. He found a specific interest in convergence. Wolfe states, “Thanks to technology, ‘the hitherto scattered” species Homo sapiens was being united by a single ‘nervous system for humanity,’ a ‘living membrane…a unified consciousness that would cover the earth” (4). Many (e.g., Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Marshall Mcluhan) believed that the “global village” would eventually influence the evolution of man, and that the noosphere could allow the human mind to expand. Wolfe argues that
