Without the skills to participate in a literate, technological world and the knowledge to transform their environment, people will remain on the margins of society, and society itself will lose their potential contributions.
We have taken this to the point that it is the management of knowledge has become a significant drive in many organizations, with a thought to be able to transform any practice or item of knowledge into an asset.
Genomic knowledge, of humans and other species, will transform medicine by introducing side-effect-free drugs that work first time, expanding the range of diseases that are treatable and refining diagnosis.