🌊 Ripple · counterfactual
What if the Ford Model T had gone differently?
1908 · north-america
A car cheap and rugged enough for a farmer, built in numbers no one had tried before.
If it had gone differently: The car stays a rich man's toy; there is no mass motoring, no suburb, no roadside America.
What it set up
- 1913The moving assembly line, Cars, appliances and machines stay hand-built and expensive; there is no mass consumer economy.
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