Could it be that all roles will be online in the following 20 years?
We have see a large shift in the way we, certainly in the Western world, work over the last ten years.
In fact in the last two years the number of Online Jobs has increased . The theory of an internet business being something different from “normal” work now seems luddite, online jobs and internet business has become the norm.There is no question that although traditional businesses are still in the clear majority it is now acceptable both socially and in a business context to own, operate or just work for an Internet Business.
The concept that most of us struggle with is connecting the cyber world with the real, aren’t they completely separate? Aren’t internet business opportunities quite limited to knowledge focused services and eBay?
Actually no, with the improvements in software over the last few years, 3D printing is now a reality and, as the product lifecycle enters the maturity phase, the price of these machines is coming down to be within the ability of small companies.The capability to be able to model actual materials from virtual (software based) designs means that anybody can have what is in essence a factory in their back room. In theory this would allow production to be offered by workers who Work From Home.
Think about that for a bit .. as markets become more open, more people will be able to work from home, run their own internet business and online jobs will be the model. Anybody will be to set up a tool making firm for the home DIY market based on how they think tools should look. There will be small markets maybe, and probably not worrying to the big DIY stores but a market nevertheless.
You may contend that not everybody has the wherewithal to run an internet business producing construction designs for manufacturing, and that is no doubt the case. However the team idea will work in the cyber world as well as it did in the early days of retailing in the real world. There will be an army of eager helpers who will prop the internet business entrepreneurs, generally for free, in the same way as Linux was supported, or Wikipedia or any other of the open source mutual applications that are currently in expansion.
There is no doubt we will see, actually are seeing, an explosion in the number of people who will work from home running an internet business and assisting businesses who are providing online jobs for an increasing number of people. Once the majority of people realise the power of linking real world production with virtual internet business then we will see another immense shift in the amount of people who work from home and have online jobs.
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