About: Alex Wright is an information architect for The New York Times and the author of Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages. He has previously led user experience initiatives for Yahoo!, Macromedia, The Long Now Foundation, IBM, Microsoft, Harvard University, and the Internet Archive, among others. He writes regularl

Alex Wright is a writer and information architect for The New York Times and the author of Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages. He has led user experience initiatives for Yahoo!, Macromedia, The Long Now Foundation, IBM, Microsoft, Harvard University and others. He maintains a personal Web site at http://www.alexwright.org/