Technology for producing and distributing information is useless without some way to locate, filter, organize and summarize it. A new profession of “information managers” will have to combine the skills of computer scientists, librarians, publishers and database experts to help us discover and manage information. These human agents will work with software agents that specialize in manipulating information-offspring of indexing programs such as Archie, Veronica and various World Wide Web crawlers that aid Internet navigators today.