Robert Reich and Symbolic Analysts

Reich uses the term of 'symbolic analysts' to describe what he feels one of the three main job classifications of the future will be. The symbolic analysts will be someone who is a problem identifier, a problem solver, or an innovator who can visualize new uses of existing technologies. This class of workers includes scientists, engineers, and other scientific or technical specialties as well as marketers, investors, some types of lawyers, developers and a wide …

…globe. While most elementary education is still backward, there are also some schools which prepare young minds for their futures as analysts. The U.S. also has an advantage over developing countries in that the analyst has been here already for some time. There are specific zones of learning and innovation already present in our country that will take years to develop elsewhere. This gives the United States a jump-start heading into the next century.