The manufacturing microbe

In all industrialized countries, the manufacturing industry appears to be in difficulty: the costs of maintaining skilled workers to do complicated technical tasks are becoming a major hurdle. The fact that a majority of the young professionals will spend their whole lives just typing in front of a screen is worrying plenty of sociologists, particularly because of the simple fact that our brains apparently are sparked to creativity by being involved in complex handling – read manufacturing – exercises (Sennett, 2014).