Not so long ago, within my own lifetime, the word information did not have much status in our culture. Information became transformed from that modest, marginal status to a titanic concept that encompasses all powers of the human mind. We came to the conclusion that information processing is essentially, and most significantly, what the human mind does. I take that to be a weak piece of folklore which the general public has come to accept, and because of this acceptance, we now use the word information in many contexts where it doesn't belong. Perhaps we need a different word indicating some higher level of intellectual organization.
Information is a scattered body of facts and figures.
Knowledge is some higher level of organization, say the difference between scattered evidence from experiments and a scientific theory. The theory is knowledge. The major division I develop in the book is between information and ideas. The mind thinks with ideas and not with information. It uses information, but ideas are ultimately responsible for generating information.