Smart environment designer is one of the professions of the future
The largest cities in the world are rapidly becoming smarter. In New York City, a street security system automatically detects gunfire sounds and locates where the gun was fired. The city also has a system that predicts the likelihood of fires in buildings. In Moscow, a smart traffic management system reports traffic jams and regulates traffic congestion. In Barcelona, ​​smart waste bins report to the public utility when they are full.
Existing Smart City technologies open up endless opportunities for the development of the human environment. They will help make life in cities safer, more enjoyable and more harmonious. The smart environment designer will create system solutions for cities. They will combine various networks, devices and sensors with a person's physical habitat - home, street, transport, place of work.
This profession (which brings together a whole cluster of narrow specialties) will require deep knowledge in IT, big data processing, the Internet of Things and hardware. "Smart living environment" in the future also implies the integration of composite materials and sensors, that is, the specialist will still have to understand chemistry, materials science, nanotechnology.
In addition, the designer of a smart environment must have a very developed systems thinking - like an architect who conceived the construction of an entire city from scratch. Therefore, such a specialist still needs to be well versed in sociology and modern urban studies. Of course, this is one of the most difficult professions of the future, but also one of the most interesting and noble ones.
To begin to master the "architecture of the future", you need to enter universities with a strong fundamental and technical background, as well as show an interest in the humanities and sociological sciences.
Cosmonaut
Speaking about the professions of the future, one cannot but imagine the upcoming exploration of space and other planets. Despite the fact that over the past two decades, children no longer dream of becoming cosmonauts like generations of Soviet people, in the next 20-40 years the prestige of this mysterious and heroic profession will still grow. And although in our country astronautics is still marking time and reaping the fruits of Soviet achievements, private astronautics is already rapidly developing in the West and the colonization of the nearest celestial bodies - the Moon and Mars - is being discussed.
Robots are actively used to work in space, and one would think that soon machines will oust people from this dangerous field of activity. However, one should take into account the factor of simple curiosity: no matter how dangerous it is in space, people will never stop flying outside the earth's atmosphere.
The authors of the Atlas of New Professions believe that in the future the cosmonaut's profession will be more specialized. There will be cosmobiologists who will study the behavior of organisms in zero gravity and on other planets, cosmogeologists who will prospect and extract minerals on celestial bodies, and even space road vehicles that will pave routes in interstellar space. And cosmotourism will actively develop as a separate type of business, because more and more people will be able to afford flights to near-earth orbit or to the moon.