When one comes into existence? You bet. Manufacturing capabilities are much closer to the home than they've ever been before. You had the big actors at the forefront dominating the market for so long because you needed to be cutting edge to survive. Now? Hell, a god blessed RaspberryPi represents near State-of-the-Art performance for a large portion of my childhood needs. In terms of possibilities that can be realized on the cheap, we're at an inflection point where the bigger, faster processor in 6 months costs more than 6 months of figuring out how to use what you've got.

Knowing how to use something is becoming more productive than externalizing that knowledge and letting someone else distill it for you. I see a future driving in the direction of retraction and a pruning of inefficiency to back off of just shoveling more and more into wasteful wank, and getting back to building what you need and taking it from there.

Then again, most of my social circles have been make-do types, so maybe I am in a bubble. I certainly know the more cosmopolitanly inclined infrequently think about things like repurposing or fixing things. I'm praying that'll change and doing everything I can to instill a passion for knowing how thing's work, and caring about how it's made in the next generation, if only because no one ever was interested in being frank with me about all the decisions the market decided to make for me about what parts of my life I should and should not have access to.

I try to get them to pay attention to all the things people don't say, bexause that tends to be at the root of so much of the shit and wrongness in the world we're inhabiting.