So much of what information technology and the Web has allowed us to do is break things up into parts.

Whether it’s hardware, software, how you purchase our travel, how we consume news, how we watch movies and television, or purchase music: So much of progress has been about liberating bits and pieces of actions or things to give us ultimate control and choice.

So it’s not a surprise that, in some senses, that the United States is becoming a nation of freelance and contract workers. It’s a cultural change, but one that has clearly been pushed by technology and the Web.

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