One of the things I really love is the rise of the Maker movement. In short, this is a movement which basically unites all of the diverse arts, crafts, and hobbies out there together under one umbrella. So you'll find everything from electronics to crocheting all combined together. It is a celebration of DIY and things people make on their own (hence the name).
What I really also like about it though is that it is leading to a revival of a lot of what were thought to be forgotten skillsets. Lots of the old handicrafts and practical skills that used to be common knowledge amongst the population have since become lost, where today knowing how to do basic woodworking, basic plumbing, basic sewing and cooking, etc...are all completely alien to many modern men and women. What no one saw however was the rise of the Internet, which has since democratized a ton of this information. We have Google books making available lots of old books from the 19th and early 20th centuries that are no longer under copyright, and we have new books being published on many of these skills, including by the Maker publishing company. We also have Youtube, which allows people to demonstrate many of these skills that otherwise might be difficult to glean just from books.
In terms of myself, one DIY area that I had no idea existed is that of home machining and machine tools. I had always assumed that many things made out of metal required ultra-expensive sophisticated machines to manufacture. I had no idea of the level of DIY manufacturing that is available to a person from just manual machine tools, simple old-fashioned metal casting, wood pattern making, etc...and that is with the old technology. Today you can combine it with special design software which is becoming commoditized and affordable, 3D printers, CNC machine tools (you can build your own CNC machine tools even), etc...
The movement is really a glorious way to promote and encourage production and creativity in our society and in the world overall.
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