Did you know that a glass of hippopotamus milk contains eighty calories, or that only five percent of people are able to dream in color? Facts are intriguing but, just as quickly, they are easily forgotten. The recent knowledge explosion has had a great impact upon technology. With that technological 'know how,' we thought we had a blank check to the future. Then came the new bullies on the block: environmental pollution and computer impersonalism. The marriage of knowledge and technology were not creating the utopia we had hoped for. The yellow brick road to the future emptied into that old dirt path of breast beating. They didn't break any record for moral progress, either.

Many of us have to agree that any quest for knowledge as a thing in itself can be a dull date. Knowledge must ripe…