With the University Fair over, I decided to post up some jobs that are in our near future. Mind you, these jobs are not made up. I stumbled upon this on a website and thought I'd share. Enjoy
Job: Fly Shuttles to Space
Job: Make organs from scratch
Hiring: 2020
Trend: Every 90 minutes, someone in the U.S. dies waiting for a transplant. With the senior population doubling by 2050, expect more internal plumbing problems. Medical company Tengion’s simple “neo-organs,” such as bladders, arrive as soon as next year. But we’ll still need to figure out how to fashion trickier organs like lungs, kidneys and hearts, all made using the patient’s own cells to reduce rejection. “If you’re adding a new fender,” says Tim Bertram, a senior vice president at Tengion, “it has to be the right make and model.”
Education: A bioengineering program, such as Wake Forest’s, which is working to grow more than 22 different organs and tissues in the lab
More of these interesting jobs will be posted up in the near future
Source: Articles from websites such as PopSci.com and Scienceblogs.com
Job: Fly Shuttles to Space
Hiring: 2020
Trend: Virgin Galactic plans to launch the first commercial suborbital spaceflights by 2012 for about $200,000 a seat. With competition from other companies, that price could soon drop low enough for daily shuttle service to outer space, the moon and asteroids for tourism, mining and science. Commercial pilots will regain the mystique they had in the ’60s as thousands of them strap in for the stars.
Education: Aviation school or the Air Force. Also check out NASA’s underwater space-simulator laboratory.
Job: Make new habitats for les animaux
Hiring: 2030
Trend: Many habitats are now being destroyed faster than a species can evolve. But moving creatures to new homes could save them. After figuring out which species to put where (easier said than done), an “assisted migration” effort requires more care than just piling two of everything into an ark. For example, conservationists who currently relocate butterflies identify suitable sites with aerial photos and trim local plants to the insects’ exacting standards.
Education: Intern with a group like Operation Migration, which leads cranes to new watering holes.
Job: Cure health problems before birth
Hiring: 2020
Trend: Operating on a fetus was once unimaginable. Now docs fix twins’ abnormal placentas, surgery to correct spina bifida is in clinical trials, and scientists are testing stem-cell and gene therapies in pregnant mice. “We’re trying to cure disease before the baby is born, before it damages the fetus,” says Lori Howell, the executive director of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s fetal-medicine program. Pediatric DNA banks may someday help cure cancer, autism and diabetes in the womb.
Education: Head to an emerging fetal-treatment center such as the Children’s Hospitals of Philadelphia or Boston.
Job: Analyze data and predict the future
Hiring: 2015
Trend: The U.S. Bureau of Labor estimates that demand for statistics wonks will swell by 20 percent by 2018. As the barrage of data grows—tweets, insulin-meter uploads, facial-recognition billboards—we’ll need skilled people to choose what data to pull and how to make it useful. As businesses become more dependent on these analyses, the raw data itself will become a key commodity, creating its own industry. Expect openings for data brokers trading exclusive rights to data portfolios.
Education: Study computer science or stats, then enroll in a prediction-proficiency program such as DePaul University’s.
Trend: Virgin Galactic plans to launch the first commercial suborbital spaceflights by 2012 for about $200,000 a seat. With competition from other companies, that price could soon drop low enough for daily shuttle service to outer space, the moon and asteroids for tourism, mining and science. Commercial pilots will regain the mystique they had in the ’60s as thousands of them strap in for the stars.
Education: Aviation school or the Air Force. Also check out NASA’s underwater space-simulator laboratory.
Job: Make new habitats for les animaux
Hiring: 2030
Trend: Many habitats are now being destroyed faster than a species can evolve. But moving creatures to new homes could save them. After figuring out which species to put where (easier said than done), an “assisted migration” effort requires more care than just piling two of everything into an ark. For example, conservationists who currently relocate butterflies identify suitable sites with aerial photos and trim local plants to the insects’ exacting standards.
Education: Intern with a group like Operation Migration, which leads cranes to new watering holes.
Job: Cure health problems before birth
Hiring: 2020
Trend: Operating on a fetus was once unimaginable. Now docs fix twins’ abnormal placentas, surgery to correct spina bifida is in clinical trials, and scientists are testing stem-cell and gene therapies in pregnant mice. “We’re trying to cure disease before the baby is born, before it damages the fetus,” says Lori Howell, the executive director of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s fetal-medicine program. Pediatric DNA banks may someday help cure cancer, autism and diabetes in the womb.
Education: Head to an emerging fetal-treatment center such as the Children’s Hospitals of Philadelphia or Boston.
Job: Analyze data and predict the future
Hiring: 2015
Trend: The U.S. Bureau of Labor estimates that demand for statistics wonks will swell by 20 percent by 2018. As the barrage of data grows—tweets, insulin-meter uploads, facial-recognition billboards—we’ll need skilled people to choose what data to pull and how to make it useful. As businesses become more dependent on these analyses, the raw data itself will become a key commodity, creating its own industry. Expect openings for data brokers trading exclusive rights to data portfolios.
Education: Study computer science or stats, then enroll in a prediction-proficiency program such as DePaul University’s.
Job: Make organs from scratch
Hiring: 2020
Trend: Every 90 minutes, someone in the U.S. dies waiting for a transplant. With the senior population doubling by 2050, expect more internal plumbing problems. Medical company Tengion’s simple “neo-organs,” such as bladders, arrive as soon as next year. But we’ll still need to figure out how to fashion trickier organs like lungs, kidneys and hearts, all made using the patient’s own cells to reduce rejection. “If you’re adding a new fender,” says Tim Bertram, a senior vice president at Tengion, “it has to be the right make and model.”
Education: A bioengineering program, such as Wake Forest’s, which is working to grow more than 22 different organs and tissues in the lab
More of these interesting jobs will be posted up in the near future
Source: Articles from websites such as PopSci.com and Scienceblogs.com
