What Does the Future Look Like?

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What Does the Future Look Like?

• Airborne Networks
• Internet in the sky to let planes fly safely
  without ground controllers.
• Methodology hasnt changed in a half century.
• Fleet up from 175,000 (95) to 240,000 (16)
• Hours up from 28 million to 33 million flight
  hours per year
• Quantum Wires
• Power transmission wires spun from carbon
  nanotubes that can carry electricity farther and
  more efficiently.
• Make a wire with so little electrical resistance
  that it doesnt dissipate electricity as heat.

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• Silicon Photonics
• Optoelectronics make the material of computer
  chips emit light thereby speeding data flow.
• One hair-thin glass fiber can carry as much data
  as thousands of copper wires.
• But copper still rules in computers.
• 1.8 billion spent on research.
• Metabolomics
• A new medical diagnostic tool for spotting
  diseases earlier and easier. The analysis of
  thousands of molecules (i.e. sugars, fats, etc.)
  that are the products of metabolism.
• Researchers are searching for the signature of
  particular diseases like autism and Huntingtons
  disease.
• 255 million will be spent on this research by
  2007.

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• Universal Memory
• Through nanoelectronics, nanotubes make possible
  ultra dense data storage units netting a storage
  capacity of 10 billion bits of digital
  information on a silicon disk the size of a CD.
• Within 20 years we will be able to store the
  content of all DVDs ever made on our laptop or
  store a digital file containing every
  conversation we ever had on our PDA.
• Bacterial Factories
• Pharmaceutical companies are overhauling a
  microbes metabolism to yield cheap drugs.
• Scientist are mass producing compounds in
  specially engineered bacteria that will allow
  treatment for disease. (i.e. compound in a weed
  in China)
• The 500 million people afflicted with malaria
  this year (almost a million children 0-4 in
  Africa alone) may have the opportunity to be
  treated for as little as a quarter where before
  the costs were out of reach.

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• Environmatics (Environmental Informatics)
• Computer forecasts enhance farm production and
  species diversity.
• Determine where devastating fungus infections may
  strike crops
• Use website info about the flowering date of
  crops.
• Weather forcasting
• Cell Phone Viruses
• Telecom companies catch bad code through the air
  and secure computer systems.
• Integration of cell phones into every phase of
  our daily life make them perfect carriers for
  digital diseases.
• 900 million will be spent on mobile security by
  2008.
• Biomechatronics
• Prosthetic devices are being transformed to mate
  robotics with the human nervous system creating a
  new generation of artificial limbs. Combine with
  tissue engineering to create limbs of hybrid
  materials. (war/disease)
• 1993 10,000 lower body, 105,000 upper body
• 2003 8,000 lower, 125,000 upper body
• 5-7 years Spinal cord injury patients will walk
  again

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Where Are We Now?

• Speed of change
• Caterpillar (a large supporter of CTE)
• 2537 patents in the last 5 years
• Skills needed by business
• Technology
• Ability to adapt to changing customers
• Employability skills
• Ability to improve image

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Technology

• Everyone must know their way around a computer
  because it is a common tool.
• Everyone must practice continuing education, much
  of which will be through technology.
• Everyone must understand that change is constant.

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Customers Are Changing

• Global
• Consolidating
• Smart
• Sophisticated
• Expectations are higher that every before.

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Employability Skills

• Normal
• Dress
• Resumes/cover letters
• Etiquette
• Image
• Teamwork
• Speech
• Work ethics

• New
• Internet usage
• Ethics
• Professionalism
• Cultural awareness
• Code of conduct
• Hostile work environment
• Behavior on the road
• Promotion expectations

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Improve Image

• How can employees reduce negativity?
• Realize that perceptions are reality. Example
  21st century technicians are always dirty, below
  average intelligence, nothing more than a
  toolbox, not paid well, etc.
• Participate in marketing campaigns that counter
  leading misconceptions.
• Incorporate messages about technology, career
  paths, growth, work environment, and pay.

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Improve Image By Changing Career Values

• High School Graduates
• Money
• Variety
• Fun/rewarding
• Flexibility
• Challenging environment

• Post High School Workers
• Growth opportunity
• Challenging environment
• Rewarding/feeling valued
• Job security
• Comfortable environment

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Where are we now?

• Alabama Unemployment 4.7
• Nation 5.4 unemployment
• Alabama Growth Rate 1.9
• Nation 4
• 42 or 67 counties lost population over past four
  years. Those who leave are usually ambitious and
  capable.
• Anomaly Corporate and Income Tax Growth up
  9.5

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Professional Development Will Help Us Get There

• Professional development is important at all
  levels.
• Teachers
• Local Administrators
• State Staff
• Dawn Morrison how to use the state professional
  development plan to implement high quality
  professional development in your system.