But then, is the change going to come in the form of a post-corporate world? One where, because of globalization and hyper-specialization happening beyond our s

But then, is the change going to come in the form of a post-corporate world? One where, because of globalization and hyper-specialization happening beyond our shores, the US undergoes a second "industrial revolution" vis a vis the generalist contractor, who has no corporate affiliation as far as career/jobs go, but goes from job to job, doing whatever is needed and filling in roles as necessary, often from home? From the trivial (stuffing envelopes, follow-the-sun sales/customer support, transcriptions) to non-trivial (programming/development, deployment and remote monitoring and management of cloud compute services, translation, creative output, paralegal or administration), all while on 1099 rather than salaried full-timers. And, this kind of generalist work can be also farmed out, as well, to specialists. What the labor-intensive fields like construction and farming has done with subcontractors and day-laborers, we (meaning both big megacorporations and startups/microbusinesses/mom+pops) can do for our own "softer" industries. Which, then, begs the question: Is the future a world of mega-multinationals making and doing everything for us? It really seemed to be prior to the 2008 crash. It may be my perception because I'm working on my own multiple side projects and I frequent HN so much, but I feel like the ground is shifting. It looks like it's becoming more of a post-corporate scenario, where the incoming generations Y and Z distrust the corporations by default in favor of the small, more personalized and targeted, vendor (on or offline). One needn't look further than HNs own submissions to see the popularity of indie made goods,the popularity of Kickstarter projects, microISVs (little web apps, mobile apps by small teams), the popularity of Etsy and the Humble Indie bundle and runaway stories like Angry Birds, indie scribes Amanda Hocking and John Locke, and even smaller winemakers and microbreweries. It looks like things are flowing in another direction.