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The key artifice of the modern world, where information undergoes a process of change resulting in creation of wealth and different advancement, is what we call knowledge. Through learning and research, focusing on scientific and technological innovation, human advancement can be achieved. Information and knowledge have become the key source and symbol for power that lead to economic and social development. Moreover, the medium in which it is essential to growth and prosperity of the people is the exchange of ideas and information. The success of an organization depends what the members know against what the members lack knowingS. People, at all levels, should be lifelong learners, being responsive and adaptive in a continuously changing world; thus, making the intellectual property of a person the most important, perhaps, the key artifice of in achieving success and continuous growth. This manner raises the potential of the corporation as a platform for creative work in the resolution of social dilemmas, and prevents negative consequences and producing positive societal impact. The rise of the industrial workers has emerged as the most stabilizing social development in which their job did not require any skills and no additional knowledge is needed. However, it is widely believed that the fall of the blue collar worker is largely caused by taking production offshore, to other countries. The issue is not cost of wages but the application of knowledge. The knowledge society provides challenges and opportunities that we've never known before. We now need to think through education more fully -- to redefine what education means. We are living in a period during which education is being transformed. Now, we rise and fall according to the knowledge we have about the world we live in. Education is the center of knowledge that builds up the society. Learning will become the tool of the individual, if only because so much skill and knowledge can be acquired by means of the new learning technologies. An implication is that how well an individual, an organization, an industry, a country, does in acquiring and applying knowledge will become the key competitive

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The key artifce of the modern world, where information undergoes a process of change resulting in creation of wealth and diferent advancement, is what we call knowledge. Through learning and research, focusing on scientifc and technological innovation, human advancement can be achieved.Information and knowledge have become the key source and symbol for power that lead to economic and social development. Moreover, the medium in which it is essential to growth and prosperity of the people is the exchange of ideas and information. The success of an organiation depends what the members know against what the members lack knowing!."eople, at all levels, should be lifelong learners, being responsive and adaptive in a continuously changing world# thus, making the intellectual property of a person the most important, perhaps, the key artifce of in achieving success and continuous growth.This manner raises the potential of the corporation as a platform for creative work in the resolution of social dilemmas, and prevents negative conse$uences and producing positive societal impact.The rise of the industrial workers has emerged as the most stabilizing social development in which their job did not require any skills and no additional knowledge is needed. However, it is widely believed that the fall of the blue collar worker is largely caused by taking production offshore, to other countries. The issue is not cost of wages but the application of knowledge.The knowledge society provides challenges and opportunities that we've never known before. e now need to think through education more fully !! to redefine what education means. e are living in a period during which education is being transformed. "ow, we rise and fall according to the knowledge we have about the world we live in.%ducation is the center of knowledge that builds up the society. &earning will become the tool of the individual, if only because so much skill and knowledge can be ac$uired by means of the new learning technologies. 'n implication is that how well an individual, an organiation, an industry, a country, does in ac$uiring and applying knowledge will become the key competitive factor in a successful society. (idespread education in a society creates new cultural ideas about types of knowledge, models of expertise, and defnitions of personal success. %ducation is the foundation of evolutional modernity.