I guess that today they would design it on a computer, and cut the pieces out with a water jet, or feed the information into a 3D printer, and just create it. Maybe the those professions have all been replaced by computers.
Someone, somewhere must be designing and making machines, or is it a lost art?
How can someone who spends all their waking hours, letting their fingers dance around a little cell phone keyboard,acquire any skills at all, other than dexterity. What kind of an imagination must that develop?
In the future, I envision there will be no verbal communication at all, just keyboarding, back and forth. Imagination will be a thing of the past. Eventually, it will come to the point where a minister will stand at the alter, keyboard his sermon on his Android, and his packed church, full of parishioners will all be looking down at their cell phones. No passing the "collection plate" around, just send it to the church via Paypal.
On a Sunday morning in August, you can be sitting in a boat, in Michigan, on Mullet Lake, fishing, and get Reverend Williams sermon delivered on your phone. Taking Communion is another thing, they haven't figured that out yet, may be OK if you have a 3D printer.
