The cure to information overload is more information.
To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.
This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.
The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.
Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.
Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.