"The history of the past two decades online is one of an extraordinary explosion of innovation and entrepreneurship. It’s now time to apply that to the real world, with far greater consequences.
We need this. America and most of the rest of the West is in the midst of a job crisis. Much of what economic growth the developed world can summon these days comes from improving productivity, which is driven by getting more output per worker. That’s great, but the economic consequence is that if you can do the same or more work with fewer employees, you should. Companies tend to rebound after recessions, but this time job creation is not recovering apace. Productivity is climbing, but millions remain unemployed.
Much of the reason for this is that manufacturing, the big employer of the twentieth century (and the path to the middle class for entire generations), is no longer creating net new jobs in the West. Although factory output is still rising in such countries as the United States and Germany, factory jobs as a percentage of the overall workforce are at all- time lows. This is due partly to automation, and partly to global competition driving out smaller factories.(Moi ici: A nossa realidade é completamente diferente neste ponto. A globalização aniquilou as empresas grandes, as fábricas que sobreviveram foram as que se reinventaram e ficaram mais pequenas)
Automation is here to stay— it’s the only way large- scale manufacturing can work in rich countries. But what can change is the role of the smaller companies. Just as startups are the driver of innovation in the technology world, and the underground is the driver of new culture, so, too, can the energy and creativity of entrepreneurs and individual innovators reinvent manufacturing, and create jobs along the way.
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The great opportunity in the new Maker Movement is the ability to be both small and global. Both artisanal and innovative. Both high-tech and low-cost. Starting small but getting big. And, most of all, creating the sort of products that the world wants but doesn’t know it yet, because those products don’t fit neatly into the mass economics of the old model."
Trechos retirados de "Makers - The New Industrial Revolution" de Chris Anderson
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