We have seen a huge shift in the way we – certainly in the Western world – work over the last five years.
In fact in the last two years, the types of Online Jobs have increased hugely. The thesis of an internet business being something different from “normal” work now seems daft, online jobs and internet business has become acceptable. There is no doubting that although traditional organizations are still in the vast majority it is now acceptable both socially and in a business context to own, operate or just work for an Internet Business.
The idea that most of us struggle with is connecting the cyber world with the known, aren’t they completely separate? Aren’t internet business opportunities actually limited to theory focused services and eBay?
Actually no, with the progress in software throughout the last few years, 3D printing is now a reality and, as the product lifecycle enters the maturity phase, the price of these printers is getting lower to be within the realm of small companies.The ability to be able to extract actual products from virtual (software based) designs means that anybody can have what is in essence a factory in their back bedroom. In theory this would allow production to be offered by people who Work From Home.
Think about that for a bit .. as markets become more manageable, more people will be able to work from home, run their own internet business and online jobs will be the standard. Anybody will be to set up a tool making business for the home DIY market based on how they think tools should look. There will be niche markets maybe, and probably not challenging to the big DIY stores but a marketplace nevertheless.
You may dispute that not everybody has the skills to run an internet business producing fabrication designs for manufacturing, and that is no doubt the case. However the co-operative idea will work in the digital world as well as it did in the early days of retailing in the real world. There will be an army of keen helpers who will support the internet business entrepreneurs, undoubtedly for free, in the same way as Linux was developed, or Wikipedia or any other of the open source open applications that are currently in advancement.
There is no doubt we will see, actually are seeing, an flood in the number of people who will work from home running an internet business and supporting organisations who are providing online jobs for a growing number of people. Once the bulk of people comprehend the power of linking real world production with virtual internet business then we will see another considerable shift in the amount of people who work from home and have online jobs.
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