Kuala Lampur, Oct. 12 -- Imagine having access to almost everything that humanity has ever written, discovered or recorded, but not knowing what to do with it.

This would have sounded like a rather strange problem to our ancestors, who spent much of their lives trying to preserve knowledge and make it available to others.

Yet, in many ways, this is precisely the situation we find ourselves in today. We have more information at our fingertips than any generation before us, but having access to information does not necessarily mean that we know how to use it.

For much of human history, one of our greatest challenges was storing information.

Knowledge was passed from one generation to another through oral traditions, handwritten manuscri...