The saying "knowledge is power" (Sir Francis Bacon) used to be true, but knowledge alone is not enough anymore.

Another saying, "timing is everything," is also only partly true. What I feel is true is that there are moments when we are more
receptive and more open to insight and learning.

There are opportunities at which timely access to relevant and multi-faceted knowledge and perspectives can be very powerful.
I strongly believe that technology affords and sometimes even creates these opportunities, and as such, is a great enabler of
learning, and a powerful booster of human potential, significantly enhancing both knowledge and skills,
propelling us beyond our natural, evolutionary trajectory.

The following is confirmation of the need for WebLenses (my Masters Project):

In 1923, Edna St. Vincent Millay, applauding the growth of good data while simultaneously decrying the lack of good techniques for exploratory data analysis, wrote:

Upon this gifted age in its dark hour
Falls from the sky a meteoric shower
Of facts. They lie, unquestioned, uncombined.
Wisdom enough to leach us of our ills is daily spun,
But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.

         - Graphic Discovery by Howard Wainer

I find this still very fitting today. My hope is that this project at least encourages more loom-builders.