A Computer Architect Cottage Industry

In the 18th century home craft textile workers were displaced by mass production in organized factories. Some of these displaced workers destroyed knitting equipment in these new factories. In England, Ned Ludd, also known as Capitain Ludd or King Ludd, the mythical leader of the Luddites, was the inspiration of a widespread effort to destroy factory equipment and return to the cottage industry that had sustained local economies before the development of the steam engine and the industrial revolution. Industrialization destroyed early cottage economies, but today, advanced technology and the slowing of semiconductor scaling may bring about a renaissance of cottage industry. This is the result of minimizing the cost of technology development with new cloud-based tools and internet enabled supply chains.