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I've come to dislike this quote over the years. For the overwhelming amount of product categories, people really do just want faster, cheaper, etc. There is no
by andrewmcwatters 2y ago
I've come to dislike this quote over the years. For the overwhelming amount of product categories, people really do just want faster, cheaper, etc.
There is no moving from horse to car to flying machine, because there's no energy efficient way to do it, and no feasible path to infrastructure to support it.
There is a way to make a better TV.
Henry Ford never said this anyway.[1][2]
1: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/37637/did-henry-ford-say-if-i-had-asked-people-what-they-wanted-they-would-have-said https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/37637/did-henry...
2: https://hbr.org/2011/08/henry-ford-never-said-the-fast https://hbr.org/2011/08/henry-ford-never-said-the-fast
- syndicatedjelly 2y agoYou're reading the worst possible interpretation of that quote, and applying it to all situations. Of course it's not valid for some mundane field - Ford delivered a whole new form of movement to the masses. It would be like if mass space-travel suddenly became available and cheap for us all. The original quote talks about transformative development, not iterative development.
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