(2003-09-03) Reynolds Tech Cottage Industry

Glenn Reynolds on the potential for technology (WiFi as an example) to support the re-creation of SmallCo Cottage Industry. But many jobs will move back home, at least in part. (And if you believe, as Virginia Postrel suggests, that more jobs will have an aesthetic component in the coming years, that trend may accelerate even more). New advances in computer-aided design and manufacturing, along with things like nanotechnology further down the line, may advance the trend as well.