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Emerging Industries
New technology, business practices, laws or changes in the global economy create needs for new or evolving occupations and career specialties. Often these are specialties that build on more general experience within a career, like a move into a homeland security role for a police officer. On the other hand, some of these emerging careers creatively link together two or more fields of expertise, such as nursing and computer science.
These emerging careers offer a chance to be on the leading edge of a new field. Two current emerging industries are geospatial technology and nanotechnology. Geospatial technology collects data through photogammetry; remote sensing; and geographic information systems (GIS) to visualize, measure and analyze the surrounding landscape. Nanotechnology uses particles of matter the size of atoms to develop practical commercial applications. 
Industry Education
Did You Know?
A single human hair is about 80,000 nanometers.
Within the next 10 years, the National Science Foundation estimates that the worldwide need for nanotechnology workers will rise from the current 20,000 to two million!
GIS systems are used in our cars and cell phones to provide mapping data.
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