Cahnging the Face of employment as We Know it

[PatchGirl]

An interesting item reported in the Guardian last week...

Futurists predict fewer butchers, more space pilots – and spare legs for top football stars.

Scientific advances and onset of climate change will radically change careers, says report commissioned by government.

Forget the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker: in 20 years some of the most popular jobs could include vertical farmer, space pilot and body part maker, according to a government commissioned report.

Rohit Talwar, chief executive of Fast Future, predicted the generation of extra limbs would be invaluable to the military, but could see more use in sport. "If you're spending £80m on a footballer and for £2m you can have a couple of spare legs, then you're going to do it," he said. "The level of medicine will probably tell you very accurately when their legs will fail, or what kind of strains they're likely to suffer from. So you might say as a preventative measure, rather than three months' recovery let's have an artificial limb ready so we can replace their leg and have them back playing again within a few days or weeks."

[Beefy198]

Yep, these things ALWAYS come true...