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The Future of Skills is Found with Penguins

What’s the essence of the trend? Simply put, you likely don’t have the skills that you need to get into our faster, more complicated future. You’ve got machine operators, but you need 3D printing experts; land surveyors when you require location intelligence professionals; or gas engine designers when you need experts in penguin behaviour.

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Publish Date2019-01-10
Updated Date2026-09-18
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Originally published as 19 Trends for 2019: #7 The Future of Skills is Found with Penguins on January 10, 2019.

This record preserves item #7 in Jim Carroll’s 19 Trends For 2019 series as a structured historical trend in the futurist.info knowledge graph.

What’s the essence of the trend? Simply put, you likely don’t have the skills that you need to get into our faster, more complicated future. You’ve got machine operators, but you need 3D printing experts; land surveyors when you require location intelligence professionals; or gas engine designers when you need experts in penguin behaviour.

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