Can We Teach Fascination?

The other day I found a list of the 25 most in-demand skills for today’s workers. Among them, after statistical analysis and data mining: “middlewear” and integration software. Algorithm design. Web architecture and development framework. User interface design. Middlewear? I don’t even know what that is, and I bet nobody else did 20 years ago. But apparently, it’s a thing. A lucrative thing.