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I'd like to be a tester for job number 6. Especially the robot wives, not so much for sex, but to see if I could be such a jerk to it that it figures out how to cheat on and leave me all on its own.
p.s. I'm an RN, there will be no Robot nurses.
Job number 8 as a future Civil Engineer and Architect, with Mechanical Engineering and Rocket Engineering thrown it would be my dream job. :D
I just bookmarked this page.
I'm primed for job number one! Right up my alley! Can't wait!! The future is bright!
"Welcome! to the Federation Starship SS Buttcrack!!!"
I want to be an Organ Designer and a Thought Hacker! ahaha.
Cool article! :D
If we bring raw materials from space and transform them on earth, that transformation will only bring in more pollution. Until we find another "earth" let us not pollute this one. The future is here but can we afford it?
Number 11: Space Asteroid Miner.
We need people who can go to distant asteroids and mine them for precious metals. Then, we need people who can exploit whatever riches these people bring back, so maybe number 12 would be the broker for whoever sells the stuff that the space asteroid miners bring back. Then number 13 would be the person who turns that material into watches or rings.
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I guess that organ designer would be my choice...
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The future must be bright indeed if we anticipate the need for an "Animal-Migration Engineer".
And soon thereafter we will need the "Whole Earth Migration Engineer".
I hope these guys will be ready before we totally screw things up down here.
"Learn to Live & Live to Learn"
Alexander von Humboldt
My "dream job" Organ Designer made the list. Cool. :)