Jobs of the Future: Imaginative Careers for Forward-Thinking Kids
Jobs of the Future Imaginative Careers for Forward Thinking Kids Sofia E Rossi & Carlo Canepa Illustrated by Luca Poli Andrews McMeel Publishing
INTRODUCTION How many times have you been asked what you want to be when you grow up And how many times have you not been able to answer because you weren’t sure or you weren’t interested in doing the same jobs as the adults in your life Well you should know that whatever job you eventually pursue there’s a good chance it doesn’t yet exist but it will soon In fact in a few years time you may be able to bring species that have been extinct for millennia back to life or you might build houses in impossible places You may even try to identify diseases that are unknown today or communicate with trees
Each job of the future has a unique mission and requires a set of innovative tools with which to carry it out How will the plastics fisherman save the oceans from pollution Will the DNA tailor be able to cut and mend diseased genes And will the cloud hunter succeed in slowing global warming before it’s too late
