The term informavore (also spelled informivore) characterizes an organism that consumes information.
It is meant to be a description of human behavior in modern information society, in comparison to omnivore, as a description of humans consuming food.
George A. Miller[1] coined the term in 1983 as an analogy to how organisms survive by consuming negative entropy (as suggested by Erwin Schrödinger[2]).
An early use of the term was in a newspaper article by Jonathan Chevreau[3] where he quotes a speech made by Zenon Pylyshyn.
[4] More recently the term has been popularized by philosopher Daniel Dennett in his book Kinds of Minds[5] and by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker.