practicality

"That may be true - but all my skills are learned, too, and not exactly world-bettering. Most people's are, I think - they just have different drives towards different things. And if you think the advent of computer technology means there's no need for those who can organize and find data...well. We have a least two servers of material from the Science Department's classified projects we've barely touched, because none of us have the necessary background, and the project head was notorious for organizing things in a way that only made sense to him."