Jobs may be scarce today, but if current trends hold, pretty soon there will be plenty of fun, lucrative gigs. If you have the vision to start prepping now, you could be flying starships, reading minds, or designing organs.

工作也许现在很难找，但如果照当前的趋势发展下去，不久之后，就会有很多既有趣又能赚大钱的工作出现。假如你够有远见，现在就着手准备，那你就有可能成为未来的飞船驾驶员、测心专家或器官设计师。

Forecaster of Everything
全能预报员

Job: Analyze data to predict the future.Hiring: 2015
工作内容：分析数据，预测未来。上岗时间：2015年

Trend: The U.S. Bureau of Labor estimates that demand for statistics wonks will swell by 20 percent by 2018. As the barrage of data grows—tweets, insulin-meter uploads, facial-recognition billboards—we'll need skilled people to choose what data to pull and how to make it useful. As businesses become more dependent on these analyses, the raw data itself will become a key commodity, creating its own industry. Expect openings for data brokers trading exclusive rights to data portfolios.

发展趋势：据美国劳工局估算，到2018年，对统计学专业人员的需求量将增加20%。随着数据量的爆炸式增长——微博留言、胰岛素仪上传数据、具有人脸识别功能的广告牌——我们需要技术娴熟的人来确定哪些数据可以用，以及如何用。随着商业活动对这些数据分析的依赖性越来越强，原始数据本身也将成为一种重要商品，并形成属于自己的独特产业。拥有数据资产独家交易权的数据经纪人即将应运而生。

Education: Study computer science or stats, then enroll in a prediction-proficiency program such as DePaul University's.
应受教育：攻读计算机科学或统计学专业，然后到设有预测专业的学校进行深造，比如德保罗大学。

Organ Designer
器官设计师

Job: Make organs from scratch. Hiring: 2020
工作内容：从无到有，制造器官。上岗时间：2020年

Trend: Every 90 minutes, someone in the U.S. dies waiting for a transplant. With the senior population doubling by 2050, expect more internal plumbing problems. Medical company Tengion's simple "neo-organs", such as bladders, arrive as soon as next year. But we'll still need to figure out how to fashion trickier organs like lungs, kidneys and hearts, all made using the patient's own cells to reduce rejection. "If you're adding a new fender," says Tim Bertram, a senior vice president at Tengion, "it has to be the right make and model."

发展趋势：在美国，每隔90分钟就有一个人在等待器官移植中死去。到2050年，老年人口将翻一番，届时，预计会有更多的人需要进行器官移植。Tegion医药公司生产的构造简单的 “新器官”最快明年就能上市，比如膀胱。不过，我们仍然需要研究如何制造出像肺、肾、心脏之类更复杂的器官。为了减少排斥反应，制造这些器官均要使用病人自身的细胞。“这就好比你如果要装一个新的挡泥板，”Tengion公司资深副总裁蒂姆·伯特仑说，“那么它的结构和样式都必须得恰到好处。”

Education: A bioengineering program, such as Wake Forest's, which is working to grow more than 22 different organs and tissues in the lab
应受教育：学习生物工程专业，比如维克森林大学就正在实验室里培育超过22种不同的器官和组织。

World Watcher
世界观察员

Job: See it all with satellites. Hiring: 2030
工作内容：用卫星观天下。 上岗时间：2030年

Trend: Multispectral satellites can already spot buried ancient cities and track how temperature, population and ground cover help spread disease. As imaging improves, more reverse-astronomers will look down at our own planet with something like a super-powered, time-lapse Google Earth.

发展趋势：多光谱卫星已经能够准确定位地下古城，并对温度、人群以及植被如何促进疾病传播进行追踪。随着成像技术的发展，越来越多的“逆向天文学家”将会把视线下投，用功能超强、延时拍摄的“谷歌地球”之类的工具俯瞰我们居住的星球。

Education: Archaeology or geophysics, then grad work in Earth imaging, such as at the University of Wisconsin.
应受教育：攻读考古学或地球物理学专业，毕业后再到威斯康星大学之类的院校学习地球成像方面的研究生课程。

Galactic Architect
银河建筑师

Job: Build cosmic outposts. Hiring: 2025
工作内容：建造宇宙前哨基地。 上岗时间：2025年

Trend: President Obama says that astronauts will reach an asteroid by 2025. Soon we'll be mining precious metals and making rest-stops to Mars, projects that require buildings and vehicles that can withstand everything from subzero temperatures to extreme radiation. Learning to keep people alive in materials-starved space could help Earth-dwellers, too. "Extreme environments provide lessons for everywhere," says Larry Bell, a space architect at the University of Houston. "How do you do more with less? What is recyclable?"

发展趋势：奥巴马总统说，宇航员将在2025年之前到达某个小行星。不久之后，我们就能在小行星上开采贵重金属，并为前往火星建造中途休息站。这类工程所需的建筑物和交通工具要经得住包括超低温和强辐射在内的任何因素的考验。学习如何让人在资源匮乏的太空生存对在地球上居住的人来说同样有帮助。“极端环境带来的教训适用于任何地方，”休斯敦大学太空建筑师拉里·贝尔说，“比如，你如何利用更少的资源做更多的事？哪些东西可循环利用？”

Education: A master's in space architecture, currently available only at the University of Houston.
应受教育：攻读太空建筑专业硕士学位，目前仅在休斯敦大学可以拿到该学位。

词汇学习：
lucrative adj. 合算的，获利的
statistics n. 统计学，统计，统计数字
commodity n. 商品，日用品，有价值之物
swell v.（使）膨胀，（使）鼓起，（使）增长 n. 增大，膨胀，肿胀， 汹涌
portfolio n. 文件夹，公事包，作品集，投资组合，（大臣或）部长职务
bioengineering n. 生物工程(学)，遗传工程
galactic adj. 星系的，银河系的， 乳汁的， 巨大的
cosmic adj. 宇宙的，广大无边的， 无限的