"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Is the Era of Mass Manufacturing Coming to an End?
"After two or three centuries during which manufacturing consolidated into larger and larger enterprises, technology is restoring opportunities for the lone craftsman making things at home, with extraordinary consequences for careers and lifestyles. The powerful trends towards making things oneself and to choosing freelance careers over full-time employment recreate some of the economic and social dynamics of Athens between 500 and 300 BC, and pose important challenges to businesses and to society. If we understand the forces behind the changes in industry structure since those times, we will have a better sense of how and why those dynamics are reversing and what that might mean for our daily lives."
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