In 10 more years, what skills will be most important?

I woke up this morning thinking about a presentation I have to make tomorrow and reviewing what I’ll tell people in Chatham about Deforest City’s chicken debate.

Deputy Mayor Gosnell thinks ‘it’s better to leave raising eggs to the professionals’ because ‘this is not the 1920s... we’re a very urban society’ and ‘becoming a sophisticated research and development, high-tech community.’

Can we not do both? Can we not research and develop new technologies while becoming more self-reliant related to food production?


["Singing in 11-part harmony will be important"]

And in 10 years, when professionals in agribusiness will likely be paying more for oil and shipping and chasing chickens, etc., and growing national debt (and global debt) will be making many jobs more vulnerable to failure, what skills will we consider important?

Raising, killing, defeathering and gutting a chicken to save a few dollars might seem more important in a more expensive world.

Developing a better cellphone so people can carry on the following conversation...

“What are you doing?”

“Nothing. What are you doing?”

“Nothing.”

... might seem less important.

What were you thinking when you woke up this morning?

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