The Day Small Industry Officially Died

New York Grime Magazine
January 1 2045

Since 2015 people have been making their own things at home.  Hundreds of thousands of personal manufacturing devices have been sold.  This created a Sparse Network Supply chain where people bid to produce certain parts of different pieces of equipment at home.  Eventually people were making the very machines that were being sold to them as a product.   They were making improvements and sharing their ideas over the saninet, the network that excludes any form of social vices and focuses on opensource hoducts.

Now it is official the last non-home based manufacturer in china has closed the factory, which will now be transformed into housing for the area homeless.  This was the last manufacturer of polyresinous material.  Now with the recent years advances in extracting carbon from the air and converting it with household organic waste to create new input materials, there was no economic reason for the factory.

Since 2020 cars are illegal and orbitram and pmovers are used for public transportation so only panufacturers exist to make the large objects such as aircarriers, sea platforms and the like.  Matt Darwin has predicted that these too will to the same direction as nanobots make their way into replacing conventional materials such as steel timber and other singluar materials.