My job in 10 Years

So I recently have been accepted into a masters program for the University of Liverpool in Information Technology Security;

It's a "Taught Masters" that takes around 2 years to complete and costs as bout as much as the down payment on a house. Part of the "Asynchronous" learning methods are discussion questions. I much prefer the use of online message boards to do this as it allows one to articulate themselves and then be subject to peer review, with a program like this where students are from around the globe, so far the number of Canadians outnumbers everyone else at 2 out of 16 participants. However we have people from Albania, Nigeria, Germany, Saudi Arabia (Abu Dabi), and the UAE. The age range is around 20 somthing to 30 something, and the first couple modules are the typical "Welcome to our school and here's some information about comptuing science" cash grabs typical of any educational system.

One of my assignments is to awnser the question will my job exist in 10 years and if so what will be diffrent? and how would one train for this poisiton?

I'm posting my awnser here as it was some wirting that came to me at 2:00AM on a wednesday evening; thursday at work was very unproductive.

Dr. Ray Kurtzwell is to Dr. Gordon Moore as Einstein was to Maxwell. Moore’s Law stipulates that every eighteen months computing power doubles, Krutzwell’s addendum is that as the resulting reduction in computing power cost the application breadth widens, and foreseeable sector based trends emerge. We see this in our everyday lives as cell phones begin to replace laptops and laptops begin to replace workstations and as workstations begin to replace superscalar systems once reserved for military and government research facilities. We begin to see features once only thought of by Thinking Machines™, Cray™, SGI™, Sun™ applied to everyday tasks inexpensively. In conjunction with the increasing availability of the Web and the modification of it’s nature to a data driven archtechure will ensure this alone. Humanistic Intelligence will emerge within the next ten years as defined by Steve Mann in 1998, the fashionable accessory of technology is already occurring; this in conjunction with the integration of augmented reality into our daily lives as coined by Prof. Caudell will have major impacts on how and where we work. We may even see the oft quoted “Singularity” as defined by Verner vinge. Dr. Kurtszwell believes that we will integrate computerized systems into our bodies utilizing nanotechnology; Professor Kevin Warwick from the university of Reading has walked about with radar sensors sending information directly to his left median nerve already. The personal area network is a reality; ever increasing open access standards dictate that the available connectivity will increase according to Moore’s law as it applies to the transmission of information. Within the next decade how we interface with the web and the world at large will change; this shift in paradigm will include the ability to communicate in any language instantaneously, the ability to access any information instantaneously; the ability to synthesize the software of life is being developed by Dr. Craig Ventor at U.C. Berkley; the only limitation is available computing power. According to Alvin Toffler’s future shock the rate of change is increasing in a logarithmic fashion, Dr. Kurtzwell statistics back up his argument. So, what kind of training will be required for the information technology security and systems consultant specializing in systems design and architecture? I’d imagine they would have to be conditioned to be creative problem solvers and have a natural desire for self modification and early adoption as well as a thirst for knowledge: Which brings about my next prediction; as people become more connected they will become more exposed; as we integrate more and more of our lives with technology the need for security increases. The ethical considerations become major social issues. The methods used to design systems will be different, the abstraction of concepts will be required but we as controllers will guide computerized systems to administer and design themselves as well as other systems to meet our needs in ieterative fashion. We will manage knowledge instead of systems. As to the interface it will probably be hardwired to our bodies; we as the architects of change must ensure that human investment in technology will not be squandered, nor allow the fictional scenarios of George Orwell, William Gibson, Philip K. Dick or Masamune Shirow to become realities.

Thought's comments and feedback are welcome :D