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Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife Finally, some statistics to prove the stereotypes right. According to a recent survey from Millennial Branding and Payscale, Millenials really are most likely to be employed in service industry jobs. So, all those jokes about post-graduation latte pouring and t-shirt folding haven't been in vain.

Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife Finally, some statistics to prove the stereotypes right. According to a recent survey from Millennial Branding and Payscale, Millenials really are most likely to be employed in service industry jobs. So, all those jokes about post-graduation latte pouring and t-shirt folding haven't been in vain.

On Sunday, I learned that a "wantologist" -- what, you don't have one? -- is somebody paid to figure out what you want. Arlie Russell Hochschild, writing in the New York Times, quotes Katherine Ziegler, wantologist, helping a client to figure out what it is that she wants. The conversation went something like this:

"If you're a good developer but you can't read and comment on a ticket, than we can't work with you," declares Brian Alvey, former cofounder of Weblogs, Inc. and the current head of Crowd Fusion, which makes content managements systems for a range of deep-pocketed clients.

he enhancements discussed ranged from technologies that are starting to have impact in the near term (such as pharmaceutical cognitive enhancement and nutrition) to those further downstream such as artificial exoskeletons and sensory enhancements. For me, the highlight of the day was the animated discussion that ensued as attendees reflected on the potential implications of enhancement technologies. How should they be regulated in the context of work? Who would pay for them, or decide what becomes available? And is 'enhancement' even an appropriate term to use?

Awesome RSA animation on what motivates us - great stuff for futures of work

Examples of jobs and careers resulting from advances in science and technology

The next decade will see more people and constrained resources but better connectivity and a shift in economic power to Asia. How will this affect the world we live in? What are the other big issues for the next decade? These are concerns that individuals, companies and governments need to address.

Monash (see slide deck)

Ten years ago, Facebook didn't exist. Ten years before that, we didn't have the Web. So who knows what jobs will be born a decade from now? Though unemployment is at a 25‑year high, work will eventually return. But it won't look the same. No one is going to pay you just to show up.

The work world of the next several decades will be significantly different from the work world of the last two decades in at least three key ways: * There will be a dramatic and rapid shift in the capabilities of technology that reduces the costs of coordinating activities and sharing ideas. * There will be a set of economic activities that is shifting away from the 20th-century industrial or manufacturing-based model and mass-consumer brands to a model based on knowledge and co-creation between consumers and suppliers. * There will be new patterns of demand for talent and skills in which many individuals, particularly those with higher levels of education, will have the leverage to create work arrangements that are more conducive to adult growth than were possible before.

In CanadaWorks 2025, Deloitte's Human capital practice and the Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA) examine the fundamental drivers of change to help us safeguard a healthy and prosperous Canadian workplace in 2025.

For the ChosunBiz Insight Forum on 'Smart World, Smart Work' Seoul, Korea, December 14, 2010

What was discussed