Is there a chance that all jobs will be online in the next ten years?

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

In fact in the last two years the number of Online Jobs has increased hugely. The thesis of an internet business being something apart from “normal” work now seems ridiculous, online jobs and internet business has become acceptable.There is no issue that although traditional businesses 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 point that most of us struggle with is connecting the digital world with the known, aren’t they completely separate? Aren’t internet business opportunities actually limited to idea focused services and eBay?

Actually no, with the progress 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 coming down to be within the reach of small companies.The capability to be able to extract physical things from virtual (software based) designs means that anybody can have what is in reality a factory in their back bedroom. In theory this would allow production to be offered by all who Work From Home.

Think about that for a second .. as markets become more accessible, 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 trade for the home DIY market based on how they think tools should look. There will be niche markets maybe, and probably not worrying to the big DIY stores but a business nevertheless.

You may argue 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 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 help the internet business entrepreneurs, usually for free, in the same way as Linux was helped, 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 helping organisations 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 massive shift in the amount of people who work from home and have online jobs.