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Domain 1: Technology changes environments

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Domain 1: Technology changes environments

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Marshall McLuhan -Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964)

"The medium is the message."

McLuhan spent Understanding Media arguing that media (he treats "media" broadly — any tool, not just mass media) restructure the "ground" people operate on (perception, social organization, the pace and scale of life) rather than just delivering "content." That's exactly the move you make when you say AI's story isn't automation, it's environmental design.

McLuhan's thesis is that every tool extends some human faculty — the wheel extends the foot, the book extends the eye, electric media extend the nervous system. That's conceptually upstream of your "Cognitive elevation" idea and the broader Humanᴬᴵ claim that intelligence is amplified through tools rather than replaced by them.

https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf

Carlota Perez: Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital (2002)

Provides a framework for understanding how major technological shifts reshape economies and institutions - https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781781005323.xml

Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee: The Second Machine Age (2014)

One of the foundational modern texts explaining digital transformation and AI-driven change - https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Second-Machine-Age/

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Domain 2: Environments shape people

Kurt Lewin: Field Theory in Social Science (1951) - Foundation for understanding how environments influence behavior - https://archive.org/details/fieldtheoryinsoc00lewi

Edgar Schein: Organizational Culture and Leadership - Perhaps the most influential work on organizational culture - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119212041

Peter Senge: The Fifth Discipline - Introduced systems thinking to organizational learning. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/160437/the-fifth-discipline-by-peter-m-senge/

Domain 3: Culture evolves when environments change

Manuel Castells: The Rise of the Network Society - Explains how networked technologies reshape institutions and culture - https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Rise+of+the+Network+Society-p-9781405196864

Domain 4: Technology elevates the human condition

Abraham Maslow: Toward a Psychology of Being - Foundation of self-actualization and human development - https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Toward+a+Psychology+of+Being%2C+3rd+Edition-p-9780470637166

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow - Provides a model for optimal human experience and capability - https://harpercollins.com/products/flow-mihaly-csikszentmihalyi

Amartya Sen: Development as Freedom - Technology becomes valuable when it expands human capability and agency. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/development-as-freedom-9780192893307

Domain 5: AI expands human capability

Douglas Engelbart: Augmenting Human Intellect (1962) - Arguably the philosophical foundation of Humanᴬᴵ - https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html

J.C.R. Licklider: Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960) - Predicted human-computer collaboration decades before AI.
https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html

Noy & Zhang (2023): Experimental Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Generative AI - One of the first major studies showing measurable productivity gains - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh2586

Brynjolfsson, Li & Raymond (2023): Generative AI at Work - Demonstrated substantial performance gains among customer support professionals - https://www.nber.org/papers/w31161

Mollick & Mollick (2024): Using AI Right Now - Practical evidence for AI-enabled capability amplification - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4707588