"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future." Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke those words more than 50 years ago. It was a time when students took classes called "shop," and those students were almost exclusively boys. Home economics classes, on the other hand, were filled with girls learning cooking and sewing. Business classes often meant typing and shorthand for girls, while mostly boys learned about farming in the classes devoted to agriculture education. Today, "vocational education" is "career and technical education," and students are learning about engineering, computers, information technology, health sciences, business and marketing, and a number of trades and industries. The changes in the career and technical education (CTE) classroom have been dramatic, but what will that classroom look like 50 years from now? Each year since 1985, the editors of "The Futurist", which is published by the World Future Society, have selected for their "Outlook" report what they call the most thought-provoking ideas and forecasts that appeared in the magazine during the year. Number four on the "Futurist's" Outlook 2009 list is, "Careers, and the college majors for preparing for them, are becoming more specialized." Students are beginning to explore what the magazine calls "niche majors," such as sustainable business, strategic intelligence, entrepreneurship, neuroscience and nanotechnology, computer and digital forensics, and comic book art. This article discusses the forecasts made by various futurists and their recommendations on what CTE should be doing now in order to prepare students for the future.