🌊 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 made possible
Later turning points that leaned on the Ford Model T. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.
- 1913The moving assembly line. Without it, Cars, appliances and machines stay hand-built and expensive; there is no mass consumer economy.
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