Information Ecology - Bryant McGill

# Information Ecology **Information Ecology** is the environment of agents, media, institutions, interfaces and technical systems through which information is produced, selected, transmitted, trusted and acted upon. ## Machine transformation Machine systems change this ecology when they become producers, interpreters and actors rather than passive storage or transmission channels. The change affects authorship, expertise, search, persuasion, administration and the distribution of cognitive work. ## Human cognitive monopoly [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match]] argues that the ecology built around exclusive human command of language-rich general cognition is already broken. [[wiki/Human Cognitive Monopoly|Human Cognitive Monopoly]] names the economic and institutional assumption being displaced. ## See Also [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]], [[wiki/Human Cognitive Monopoly|Human Cognitive Monopoly]], [[wiki/Cognitive Labor|Cognitive Labor]], [[wiki/Extended Mind Thesis|Extended Mind Thesis]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts  > “The informational ecology built around humanity’s exclusive command of language-rich general cognition is already broken: machines write, reason, translate, perceive, design, converse, search, synthesize, code and increasingly act. Humanity is not waiting for the threshold of machine intelligence; we are living inside it.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *We Cannot Un-Strike the Match. There Is No Safety. There Is No Retreat, 2026* [[reminders/Information/The Human Monopoly on Language-Rich Cognition Is Already Broken by Bryant McGill|The Human Monopoly on Language-Rich Cognition Is Already Broken by Bryant McGill]]