According to the speculative thought of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the great Jesuit theologian-scientist, the destiny of man is to culminate into a consciousness of the species.
This consciousness of mankind would ultimately become the "thinking layer of the earth," which Teilhard called the noosphere
- http://www.bizcharts.com/stoa_del_sol/imaginal/imaginal5.html
If we are going to have a thinking layer on the earth, alot of people around here are going to have to live underground, in the moron layer.