March 9, 2007

The Intellectual in the Infosphere

By PETER J.M. NICHOLSON

What qualifies as intellectual authority today is changing fundamentally. People are much less prepared to defer to the acknowledged experts in various fields. At the same time, however, we are being swamped with data and information — a glut that cries out for analysis and summary. So there is a dilemma: Whom do we turn to?

As president of the Council of Canadian Academies — an organization modeled on the National Research Council in the United States that

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