Lack of jobs or unemployment is probably the greatest problem the world population is facing at the moment. Statistics show that unemployment rates are at a 25-year old high. Nonetheless, with the easing of the global financial crisis, all indications are that jobs will return and especially many more will be created (Sakich & Stowe, 2010, p.8).. The new jobs will be largely different in that there is likely to be more flexible, more collaborative, more freelance work world. The jobs will created by a generation with new values.
The creation of new different jobs that do not exist at the moment will be inspired by the rapidly advancing technology Advances in nanotechnology promise to revolutionize the nature of work in the field of surgery (Roco, 2007, p. 13).
One of the new job descriptions that nanotechnology is bound to bring about is a ‘Memory Augmentation Surgeon’. This is a surgeon with the expertise to add extra memory to individuals (Wagner, 2011, p.3). This will especially come in handy to people who have had so much intake of information in their life that they can no longer take on any more information. This issue of sensory shutdown is increasingly becoming a concern owing to the overexposure to information and data that individuals are facing from the Internet and physical social exchange with others (Wagner, 2011, p.3). People will require additional memory so that they can update their knowledge.
As a medical practitioner in the surgery field, this job would sit well with me. My firm would make money on two fronts: first, by offering the surgical services of memory augmentation to interested clients. Secondly, the business would be able to make money as a training center for memory augmentation surgery. There is no doubt that when such a new job come into existent there would be a gap needing to be filled.
References:
Sakich, Tony. & Stowe, Linda. 2010. Careers in the Future. Retrieved from: http://www.macomb.edu/NR/rdonlyres/0709A446-8359-4165-BBFE-D0C3B6EA39B0/0/FutureCareersBooklet.pdf
Roco, C.M. 2007. National Nanotechnology Initiative – Past, Present, Future. Retrieved from: http://www.ecole-doctorale-cli.org/ecole-doctorale/IMG/pdf/NNI_Past_Present_Future.pdf
Wagner, G. Cynthia. 2011. Emerging Careers and How to Create Them. Retrieved from: http://www.thefutureofwork.net/assets/70_Jobs_for_2030.pdf
