"Biogenesis was in the first place psychogenesis. The truth was never more
manifest than on Mars, where noosphere preceded biosphere -- the layer
of thought first enwrapping the silent planet from afar, inhabiting it with
stories and plans and dreams, until the moment when John stepped out and
said Here we are -- from which point of ignition the green force spread
like wildfire, until the whole planet was pulsing with viriditas. It was
as if the planet itself had felt something missing, and with at the tap of 
mind against rock, noosphere against lithosphere, the absent biosphere had
sprung into the gap with the startling suddenness of a magician's paper
flower."
-- Opening paragraph of section "Homeless" from "Green Mars"


Developed economies are transitioning to mental labor from the physical
labor of the past millenia. Automation is the name of the game. It takes
clear, educated thought to design effective automation and write the 
software that commands them. Stock market activity is growing -- the
recent introduction of commission-free trading via Robinhood and the
brokers who followed suit allow individuals to become retail traders
in an instant so they can trade stocks, ETFs, options, etcetera  at home
or even at work. Smart trading requires knowledge of the markets, macro-
and micro-economics, fundamental analysis, chart patterns, and more.

All this knowledge is on the World Wide Web. Coherent thought has drummed
up the Web 3.0 model that extends this Web onto blockchains. The same
has been done with money. "Cryptocurrency is absolutely worthless because
it is backed by absolutely nothing. No physical collateral; nothing."
So is fiat money.

In order to keep up with the growing mental-emotional demands on the human
brain many are exploring "nootropics". We can build muscle by lifting 
weights and other things; we can build endurance by jogging and biking.
From here forward we build fluidity and acuity by consuming compounds,
solving Sudoku puzzles, playing chess and Go against silicon adversaries,
and writing code in as many programming languages as we can learn in as
short a timeframe as possible; a timeframe that shrinks as nootropic stacks
grow.

Even our concept of sports is morphing from physically running around to
computer games. Instead of a handful of rules, modern games have a wide
array of characters with different attributes & skills; there is a 
veritable smorgasboard of weapons; teams must develop and evolve strategies
to act with and react to any given combination of these which the developers
may change with rolling updates. Little physical movement is required but
that void is filled with much more thought.


Noogenesis accelerates technogenesis, manipulating the 'spheres toward
infinite expansion. Be mindful of the Entropy that ensues.