Better tools for managing information are coming.(Knight Ridder Newspapers) From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: October 30, 2002| Author: Gillmor, Dan | COPYRIGHT 2002 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

My eyes roll reflexively when I hear grand pronouncements about how the Digital Age has brought us unparalleled access to information. It's true enough, but we're not just swimming in data these days. We're sinking in it.

Technologists have given us terrific ways to store our everyday data, with disk capacities doubling every year or so. They've also done well in helping us find, in simple ways, some of the relevant information we need.

But we need more sophi...