Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits,but also big headaches...

Also in this special report:

All too much - Monstrous amounts of data

A different game - Information is transforming traditional businesses

Clicking for gold - How internet companies profit from data on the web

The open society - Governments are letting in the light

Show me - New ways of visualising data

Needle in a haystack - The uses of information about information

New rules for big data - Regulators are having to rethink their brief

Handling the cornucopia - The best way to deal with all that information is to use machines. But they need watching