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The “Institute of Creative Solutions”

For a hot minute a few years ago, I was part of naming the future, and defining the “Future Human.”

I was to design an “Institute” which would give students from Kindergarten through High School experiences they would likely face in the future. The jobs they may have do not exist today. Where we had been teaching students to read a map, they now had to create their own map.

We wanted to be sure our plans could accommodate a post-millennial mindset. We had not yet heard of Artificial Intelligence. We had no examples to work from, no people who embodied the “Future Human.”

In the 1995 film Waterworld Kevin Costner grew gills behind his ears as an evolutionary adaptation to