We live, we are told, in the Information Society. But 'society' implies a structure. We are feeling more like rubble than structure. We have recently had ample opportunity to ponder the statement that "information overload leads to information under-use". . We read papers and magazines (maybe even books!), check daily news summaries in our e-mail on pcs, laptops and blackberries, surf the Internet, keep an eye on CNN for breaking news, watch the evening television news and analyses, maybe even listen to news on the car radio. We are overwhelmed by reports of Katrina - then Rita -, the problematic UN Summit, John Roberts' hearings, German election stalemate, Italian central bank scandal, negotiations with North Korea over nuclear weaponry, climate change, space exploration, endless carnage in Iraq, elections in Afghanistan, Egypt, Poland, "cronyism" scandals in the U.S. , the Catholic Church ban on [censored]in seminaries and of course, the never-ending-but-currently-relegated-to-the-back-pages news of famines in Africa and excesses in Zimbabwe. Business news encompasses oil supply and prices, housing bubble (or not), corporate malfeasance, science and technology developments at the speed of light, airlines in Chapter 11 protection, the Google/Yahoo! wars, Income trusts, SUV markets, retail trends, bank mergers .... And there are the 'big picture' issues: health care, social safety nets, pension plans, the war on poverty, education, environmental degradation, pandemics, economic collapse, nuclear proliferation, and good governance. Instant experts emerge, sometimes to be subsequently pilloried; new gurus are praised and their teachings absorbed - or at least skimmed. How to juggle all of the news and information to keep it in perspective? Who has the time and the wisdom to think deeply about solutions to the underlying problem? Who can sort through the social and political experiments and guide us to the good models? Whom can we trust? This week,Foreign Policy asks: Who are the world’s leading public intellectuals? They suggest 100 around the world-including such disparate people as Umberto Eco, Pope Benedict and Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, along with two favorite New York Times columnists and Paul Wolfowitz. We propose to develop a list of our favorite guides through the information maze and determine whether we need or want to know about everything. Relevant Links: (more at http://www.wednesday-night.com/Wed1230.asp