When was the last time you sat at your computer and deleted old files? Yesterday? Never? Don’t remember? Before today’s ubiquitous search engines, there was practical value in being a filer rather than a piler — it was difficult to find a document in a filing cabinet without an index.

Today’s sophisticated search engines obviate the need to manually index. Search technology is wonderful if we know what we are looking for, but is it an information management panacea? Information is growing at an astonishing rate, so much so that the numbers used to communicate growth projections are now so huge that they are almost meaningless.

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