October 23rd, 2009 by Bruce

We have see a extraordinary change in the way we, certainly in the developed world, work over the last ten years.

In fact in the last two years the availability of Online Jobs has increased exponentially. The concept of an internet business being something apart from “normal” work now seems ridiculous, online jobs and internet business has become acceptable.There is no doubting that although traditional firms are still in the huge majority it is now acceptable both socially and in a business context to own, operate or just work for an Internet Business.

The thesis that most of us struggle with is connecting the digital world with the physical, aren’t they completely separate? Aren’t internet business opportunities quite limited to theory based services and eBay?

Actually no, with the advantages in technology 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 falling to be within the ability of small businesses.The ability to be able to produce physical things 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 all who Work From Home.

Think about that for a while .. 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 rule. Anybody will be to set up a tool making industry for the home DIY market based on how they think tools should look. There will be small markets maybe, and probably not challenging to the big DIY stores but a business nevertheless.

You may argue that not everybody has the wherewithal to run an internet business producing assembly designs for manufacturing, and that is no doubt the case. However the team idea will work in the computing 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 helped, or Wikipedia or any other of the open source collaborative applications that are currently in development.

There is no doubt we will see, actually are seeing, an upsurge in the number of people who will work from home running an internet business and helping businesses who are providing online jobs for an increasing 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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