Tales from 2022: chronicles from two futuristsAre your ready for the challenge?

Team “Positive Future”

Members:-Angela Ferrari & Josè Miguel Molina Fernàndez

In our dream job in 2022: I’ve just opened my eyes… I’m enjoying a wonderful view of the

forest through my window as I’m getting dressed. I’ve already obtained a degree in Economy. I’m working as a counselor in a development project in the eastern side of my country. The project’s objective is to stop monocultivation, that’s actually erosioning the ground, causing enormous damage in the environment and stopping production of many other important goods, that might be even more competitive that the one being sowed. A normal day in this job goes like this: 

- Explain the farmers the advantages of sowing more that one thing at a time. - Thinking about new ways to produce and sell farmer’s food, in order to make them earn some more, which would be a motivation for them not to use toxic products or monocultivating. - Give the government real data about food production in the countryside, so they can plan useful projects to raise the nation’s economy. 

The role of the Internet in the working arena

Internet will play a central role in our dream jobs. It will be the crucial medium of communication, since we will mostly telework (or work online). We will be able to relay on stable, high performance and affordable internet connections no matter where we will decide to work from.

Management responsibility on damages to the environment

Companies will have to work in 2 areas: producing and trying to fix every consequence that this production has brought (even though this is already happening, this situation will be clearer by then, according to us). With scarce resources on Earth, the industry will have to be as efficient as possible, of course not forgetting to be socially responsible. As always, a determinate group of professionals will work hard to make their projects sustainable while the other will try to evade this responsibilities to make their bosses earn more than what its fair. 

Technology performance & the influence of "retro" culture

Technology will be an excellent aid to industries and its level of development will be very high, especially regarding automation and precision.

Nevertheless, there will be a return to a more humanistic view of work, using the intellectual resources of people to go back to manual high perfomance work, contemplating both quality and creativity.

Risks that worker's benefits will go through

In our scenario the workers will be given flexibilty and work-life balance, since thanks to online education, absorbing experiences from professors from every part of the globe would be exciting and useful.This will also allow students to be perfectly capable to work for any organization, no matter where they come from and where their headquarters are.

Our Dream Education in 2022A perfect day in the university

would be half attendance, half online.

Importance of post graduate studies

Opportunities will be there for people from all around the world to take them 

A perfect day in university would be half-presencial, half online.

Online-studies offered by universities will be improved and will include more fields of study, so economical situation won't be an obstacle when it comes to studying.

It would allow people to get access to a global education and to interact with other cultures.

Importance of post-grade studiesTo be able to compete in the

global job market we will need further knowledge and fine critical thinking skills given by post graduate education. Post graduate studies will become very important, not only in matters of learning, but especially in learning how to do things.

Skills expected from the future educationProgramming skills (not also for websites but

also for mobile apps) because there will a lot of web related professions, English because it will be the vehicular language when working internationally, online project management working skills, because it will make team working easier, intercultural knowledge skills, since we will interact with people from all over the world, research skills because we will need to navigate through a lot of information during our daily tasks.