Amy, Here's one for you. It's just within the 15 yr time frame. This want ad is just a sketch and can be amplified. Tune in to Dean Kamen's recent work on truly useful prosthetics for amputees, featured on a recent NBC Nightly Newscast. The folks at IEEE also have a lot of great info on machine vision implants, including a program to create a "replacement" implant for the human retina by 2020. >Wanted: BioComputing Engineer. Applicants must be skilled and trained in Human/Machine neural interfaces, and associated medical/ surgical knowledge, advanced prosthetics and robotics, augmented reality technology, and, of course, computer science/engineering. Professional and/or post-doctoral documentation, papers, patents must be submitted with any application electronically via www.newhorizon.biz/biocomp.< Looking Forward, S On Sep 5, 2008, at 3:50 PM, A - Z International wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the > member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > Hi all, > > I know quite a few of you love to speculate about the future, so > here's one for anyone who wants to take a stab and help me with a > national magazine piece. > > I need to come up with five jobs of the future -- say 10 to 15 > years out. This can be any field, but we know that technology will > touch them all, from medicine to farming. > > Feel free to post ideas to the list for fun. If you want to > interview with me, then please email me at az at a-zinternational.com. > This is going to be very short, but I do need folks to quote. > > best, > > Amy Zuckerman > HT Founder > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech > Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the > Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members Steven Solomon ssol at othereality.com http://www.othereality.com "God, for lack of a better word, is that Order implicit and emergent in all possible Universes, in all possible dimensions, within and without Time." Anton Saurian Circa 2005CE