With information already past the glut stage, we don’t need more information so much as better ways of finding and using what we want and need to know. What we need is more intelligence.
Intelligence can be defined as the means by which information is processed to bring out its use-value. It can also be the product of that process. Intelligence can be as simple as passing on a clipping to someone who might benefit from reading it (connecting a need with a source), or as complex as a team-written study projecting the world 25 years into the future.
The two most common vernacular meanings of the word
