The noosphere is sort of the opposite of the 'new world order' (like the yang to the new world order's yin). Pierre Teilhard de Chardin postulated it, and I think he was prescient in doing so, because the internet seems to be creating the very thing he postulated back in the first half of the 20th century. Here's some information about it...

http://www.gaiamind.com/Teilhard.html