And as knowledge and technology become ever more important, they risk falling off entirely.
The fruits of better organization, knowledge and technology would, over time, eliminate the chief cause of poverty.
The Expo will present current knowledge and technology advancements concerning the ocean and coast to a broad audience and identify ways to resolve challenges facing the ocean.
This gap can be closed if African nations focus on developing an economy that is knowledge and technology based instead of one that is based on the export of natural resources.
She said there had been a particular emphasis on generating and disseminating knowledge and technology to support the agri-food industry at the meeting, which was held in Hillsborough on 31 March 2010.
As other speakers have said we have the knowledge and technology to ensure that the universal human right to water and sanitation recognized by the UN General Assembly last year becomes a reality.
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Stanford University professor of economics Paul Romer, known for his theories about how knowledge and technology affect economic growth, is now thinking about how technology will make the hidden cost of wasted time less hidden.
The aim is to establish a platform for scientists and information technology experts and improve cooperation between researchers, governments, policy-makers and civil society to produce the knowledge and technology needed to build sustainable, green societies.
The Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development provided a platform to strengthen dialogue between researchers, governments, policy-makers and civil society to produce the knowledge and technology needed to build sustainable, green societies.
The UNESCO Ethics of Science and Technology Programme, organizer of the conference, was created in 1998 with the establishment of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) to generate ethical reflection on science and technology and its applications.
The levels of poverty and inequality in a world rich in knowledge, technology and capital is the biggest moral issue the world faces and the biggest threat to the safety and security of the world.
These leaders work in the fast-moving world of IT, and only with a deep knowledge of and curiosity about technology can they stay abreast of developments in the field.
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Build on your QA experience and knowledge of digital camera technology (still and video) to develop and maintain testing frameworks for both capture and playback pipelines.
Much of the knowledge, expertise and technology needed to understand business is channeled into the first category.
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"New discoveries and medical breakthroughs are growing our collective knowledge of medicine at an unprecedented pace, and tomorrow's doctors will have to embrace new tools and technology to complement their own knowledge and experience in the field, " said James Stoller, M.
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But in the advanced economies, where internal markets are big enough to be fairly competitive, barriers to flows of trade, capital and knowledge have long been lower, and technology is at its cutting edge, there is less to be gained.
Number 3: Your team already shares knowledge effectively and adding another technology to the mix is simply going to make it more confusing.
The truth is that I could have fulfilled them in any type of business, but with my past experience and knowledge, healthcare technology became the industry of choice to pursue my passion.
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He finds that both institutions put a premium on deep knowledge of academic disciplines and using technology to change the world.
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Many Japanese SMEs have the technology and knowledge base, yet are capital-poor with exorbitantly high labor and materials operations costs relative to Chinese firms.
But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.
We can only keep these jobs in the U.S. if we have a skilled workforce who can meet the challenges that knowledge, information technology, and engineering present.
Higher education by its very nature falsified this idea, since it was a public investment that created and constructed new technology and new ideas, new craft knowledge, new and more effective economic and sociocultural systems.
The conservation effort at Lewa -- which is a mixture of classic habitat preservation, stringent security measures (the rhinos have their own security guards at all times) and the use of the latest technology to enhance the knowledge of a species and its breeding patterns -- has been astounding.
With modern technology, knowledge workers and knowledge businesses can escape urban congestion and the high cost of living by moving to the open spaces.
"We have the technology and the knowledge to treat these children who suffer from severe acute malnutrition very effectively, " said Werner Schultink, chief of nutrition at UNICEF.
This is the result of improved technology and better knowledge of the enormous potential of such natural gas deposits as the Marcellus Shale in New York and Pennsylvania, and the Eagle Ford deposit in Texas.
Drawing on more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences.
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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.
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