Waldenponding was a false start by people still trapped in PM and DC. This will be an approach mode, not retreat. Very Online.
My spidey sense may be compromised a bit by the fact that I’m into this mood myself but I think that’s effect not cause. The mood got me.
Maker movement 2.0 will be a side effect but for most participants it will remain a surface aesthetic/ethos. Consumerism with a bit of a producerist edge. Semi-home-made.
Woodworking is I think too waldenponding hipster millennial, a bit too cringe performative. I suspect this will be self-consciously high-tech/low-abstraction. Like embedded electronics maybe.
I think high cost and geopolitics will put a damper on this even if the impulse is there, which I don’t think it is. But I suspect a domestic version will happen within countries or cultural regions.
feel like there’s going to be a generalized reaction against being cooped up for so long and the remote work possibilities could mainstream bumming around the world and staying in airbnbs or w/e
re: climate stuff i hope so, otherwise someone’s got to get going on that ultra high energy density energy storage for aircraft... 🤷🏻♀️🙄
too late for the present moment for sure