Alex Wright is a writer and information architect who currently works for the New York Times. His first book, 'Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages' is an impressive survey on how societies have dealt with information overload through time. As an information architect, Alex has led projects for The New York Times, IBM, Microsoft, Harvard University, our own Rosetta Project, the Internet Archive, Yahoo!, Macromedia and Sun Microsystems, among others.