Martin Seneviratne and Adrian Wong propose a vision for a new "Cottage Industry 2.0" driven by localized and personalized technology workplaces ("cottage workplaces") by 2020. They predict a shift away from large corporate tech giants towards individuals and small teams producing technology using resources like 3D printing. They argue this will require an education system focused on entrepreneurship and addressing local community needs to support the new decentralized, community-focused workplace of the future.
1. COTTAGE INDUSTRY 2.0
Team name: Cottage Invention
Team leader: Martin Seneviratne
Team members: Adrian Wong
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
2. THERE & BACK AGAIN
INDUSTRIAL-SCALE FARMING
LOCAL AGRICULTURE
LOCAL ORGANIC
FARMING
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3. LOCAL REVOLUTION
Affluent, well-educated urban
people now choose this:
2020 VISION
The same industrial-to-local
shift will happen for the tech
industry
How will this affect
the workplace?
Locally-grown, community-based food
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4. In 2013:
...is designed by guys in Palo Alto
Technology & software
used all over the world
...and built in a handful of industrial centres
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5. In 2020:
The workplace will be all about a new generation of
COTTAGE INDUSTRY
...for technology!
The tech industry will be dominated not by corporate giants....
but by individuals working in personalised ‘cottage’ workplaces
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6. COTTAGE WORKPLACES
Computer programming will be Developers will build hardware
simple: a drag-and-drop task themselves with 3D printing
Everyone can be an entrepreneur
THE DREAM JOB
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7. EDUCATION
How do we tailor an education system for an
entrepreneurial, community-focused workplace?
We build an entrepreneurial,
community-focused education system! 1
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8. EDUCATING ENTREPRENEURS
DREAM EDUCATION
science + business
innovation-focused
development training
Already: startup accelerators
are popping up in universities
This model will permeate
down through all layers
of the education system
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9. EDUCATING ENTREPRENEURS
We want to equip school kids with the same mentality &
sense of opportunity as a developer in Silicon Valley
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10. COMMUNITY EDUCATION
DREAM EDUCATION
preserves local identity
built to address local issues
in a globalised world
CONCLUSION
Education in 2020 ENTREPRENEURIAL + COMMUNITY-ORIENTED
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