Eventually, as happened to Lucretius, people (if any remain) forget about the old information and technology and lose the knowledge of how to retrieve it.
We can only keep these jobs in the U.S. if we have a skilled workforce who can meet the challenges that knowledge, informationtechnology, and engineering present.
The aim is to establish a platform for scientists and informationtechnology experts and improve cooperation between researchers, governments, policy-makers and civil society to produce the knowledge and technology needed to build sustainable, green societies.