Questão 763169

Directions: Answer questions 41 to 48 according to TEXT II.

TEXT II

JOBS OF THE FUTURE

“There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job.” – George W. Crane

One of my primary complaints with higher

education is that they tend to prepare students for jobs of

the past. Similarly, the best paying jobs of the future are

all jobs that currently exist today. Many of them will still

5 exist in the future, but with some changes as technology

and communication systems make their impact.

As a rule of thumb, 60% of the jobs 10 years

from now haven’t been invented yet. With that in mind,

I’ve decided to put together a list of some jobs that will be

10 in high demand in the future.

Jobs before 2020

Many of the changes we see today will cause

new jobs to materialize quickly. This first section deals

15 with new positions that will likely be developed within the

next 10 years.

3D printing engineers – Classes in 3D printing are

already being introduced into high schools and the

demand for printer-produced products will rise quickly.

20 The trend will be for these worker-less workshops to

enter virtually different fields, at the same time, driving

the need for competent technicians and engineers to

design and maintain the next wave of this technology.

Nano-medics – Health professionals capable of working

25 on the nano-level, both in designing diagnostics systems,

remedies, and monitoring solutions will be in high

demand.

Organ agents – The demand for transplantable organs

is exploding and people who can track down and deliver

30 healthy organs will be in hot demand.

Octogenarian service providers – As the population

continues to age we will have record numbers of people

living into their 80s, 90s, and 100s. This growing group of

active oldsters will provide a demand for goods and

35 services currently not being addressed in today’s

marketplace.

Jobs in 2030 and beyond

A number of technologies currently on the

drawing board will require a bit longer lead time before

40 the industry comes into its own. Here are a few examples

of these kinds of jobs:

Body part & limb makers – The organ agents listed

before will quickly find themselves out of work as soon as

we figure out how to efficiently grow and mass produce

45 our own organs from scratch.

Earthquake forecasters – While scientists are

developing skills to work with nanoscale precision on the

earth’s surface, the best we can know about below the

surface is blindfolded guesswork done with 100-mile

50 precision. What we don’t know is literally killing us – over

226,000 killed in 2010 alone. But that will change over

time as we begin to understand the inner working of the

earth and accurately forecast when the next big quakes

are about to hit.

55 “Heavy air” engineers – Compressed air is useful in a

wide variety of ways. However, we have yet to figure out

how to compress streams of air as they pass through our

existing atmosphere. Once we do, it will create untold

opportunity for non-surface based housing and

60 transportation system, weather control, and other kinds

of experimentation.

Final thoughts

The jobs and occupations listed above are just

65 scratching the surface. This list is intended to help

stretch your imagination and start you down a path of

imagining your own future.

(Adapted from http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2011/11/55-jobs-of-the-future)

All the following verbs are used in the text in their literal meaning, EXCEPT