![]() ![]() The New Work economy turns out to be more a bubble than a genuine transition, so its immediate impacts are small. economy as everybody becomes a “maker” (relocating 20% of the U.S. They begin making kitschy, retro objects for collectors, and then move on to large-scale production which, with suitable and creative investor funding, alters the entire U.S. It sounded like an interesting premise: a pair of Florida hacker/inventors, Perry and Lester, work with 3-dee printers to create facsimiles of three-dimensional objects. This book, set from the second decade of the twentieth century (a bit further on than 2011, though), describes a New Work economy and its after-effects. “The future has imploded into the present,” writes Charles Cross, quoting Gareth Branwyn’s Is there a Cyberpunk Movement? Cory Doctorow’s Makers is another reminder that what looks like the future is already here. ![]()
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