The Future is Female


	The Future is Female

taksmaster

4-26-2007 10:25 AM

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women, future, society

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4-26-2007 10:38 PM

egoldstein

i look forward to this. it's time for a change.

4-29-2007 3:13 AM

Thorne

Will somebody PLEASE tell Hillary about this?!

4-29-2007 5:02 AM

BartendingBear

Laughing at Thorne!

4-29-2007 9:24 AM

BigBadWolf

All I know is the title of this clip scared the hell outta me!

4-30-2007 12:38 AM

Thorne

Fraidy, cat!!! @ BBW

4-30-2007 1:57 PM

karstenharder

Yes, we will soon be redundant and go the way of the dinosaurs ...

5-3-2007 7:20 PM

sidegik

BBW, i agree. the "unknown" is always scary! i like egolstein's optimism. i can see how this prediction can be true, we can see that in politics, in the corporate world, and i can see... Hilary!

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<FONT size="2">But now for something different: "the care economy", predicts BT's Ian Pearson.
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<FONT size="2">And, says Mr Pearson assuredly, women - not men - are best suited for this shift.
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<FONT size="2">After years of so called soft skills - such as communication - being sidelined, they will now play centre-stage.
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<FONT size="2">"People will have to focus on being people, using their emotional skills,"
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<FONT size="2">And, he insists, women are instinctively good at this.</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6518241.stm">Mr Pearson describes himself as "an engineer making logical deductions for tomorrow, based on things we can already see happening."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6518241.stm"><FONT size="2">"Physical jobs have been done by machines," he says, matter-of-factly. 
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