"Back in the old days, the blacksmith just made every bit of ironmongery everyone needed, one piece at a time, at his forge. That’s where we’re at. Every industry that required a factory yesterday only needs a garage today. It’s a real return to fundamentals.
What no one ever could do was join up all the smithies and all the smiths and make them into a single logical network with a single set of objectives.
That’s new and it’s what I plan on making hay out of. This will be much bigger than dot com. It will be much harder, too—bigger crests, deeper troughs. This is something to chronicle all right: it will make dot com look like a warm-up for the main show.
“We’re going to create a new class of artisans who can change careers every ten months, inventing new jobs that hadn’t been imagined a year before.” “That’s a pretty unstable market,” Suzanne said, and ate some fish. “That’s a functional market
.Read more at location 771 From Makers by Cory Doctorow
Review to follow soon - This is how I see our real new economy emerging You Don't Need a Job
