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in the real world. Some psychologists are already
curing phobia patients by immersing them in virtual
fear experiences so that they can get used to and
overcome their anxieties in the real world.
What about becoming a puppeteer, not in the old
fashioned way, but by using the internet of things
that’s just now beginning to connect up all our
possessions, objects, devices and things so that
together they can do new, cr eative and hopefully
useful things.
In this new frontier fridges will talk to toasters, cars
will talk to the road, wearable devices will talk to
medical staff, but what else can you make them
do? What else can you think of? Today this is a
fledgling industry, but tomorrow and beyond it will
the backbone of modern civilisation, we’ll wonder
how we ever lived without it and we’re looking for
pioneers today, to show us what we can do tomorrow.
Why not think big. Use your brain and the growing
sciences of big data and artificial intelligence to
solve humanities problems. These just emerging
technologies have the ability to gather, sort and
make sense of vast amounts of up to the millisecond
relevant information and turn it into best scenario
next steps.
We’re already using this embryonic technology in
hospitals to assist Doctors with accurate patient
diagnosis and prognosis and in financial markets
to model future investments and possible returns.
Satellites are constantly sending information to tractor
robots and drones using artificial intelligence to tell
them when to plant, when to water, and when to
harvest. That’s what we’re doing with it now, but what
will you do with it when you get your hands on it?
Considered a career in aged care and health? No
perhaps not, but what about getting involved in
building some of the Carer Assisted Robots that are
springing up. Or how about innovating the existing
exoskeleton that already allows nurses to put on a
suit that gives them the super power of strength and
the ability to effortlessly lift patients and move them
around. Or why not build a humanoid carer robot that
cares for patients 24 / 7, or maybe you’d prefer to be
involved in figuring out how we can live longer and
healthier lives. the field of Gerontology is an absolute
star career moving forward.
If Earth isn’t big enough for you, why not head into
space with one of the many government and private
space exploration firms? The next few decades will
see space travel, space tourism, space mining and
planet colonisation come back in a big way and to
turn it from science fiction into science fact and we’re
going to need a whole lot of great minds inventing
incredible things.
The trick to choosing a Future career is not
necessarily in knowing its job title, nor in knowing
everything about where you’re headed, because you
can’t, that future world hasn’t been created yet. It is
instead in knowing the direction that you want to
head in, recognising that talent inside of you that’s
bursting to get out and rather than trying to squeeze
yourself into one career title for life, thinking of
yourself as a Life Architect, constantly searching out
opportunities in which to use your skills and talents
so that you can imagine and build the things of your
dreams and our future.
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The next few decades
will see space travel,
space tourism, space
mining and planet
colonisation come back
in a big way and to
turn it from science
fiction into science
fact and we’re going
to need a whole lot of
great minds inventing
incredible things.
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