No more than Eli Whitney intended his cotton gin to give slavery a second wind did Henry Ford intend his Model T to transform the landscape of American life.
“The way to make automobiles,” he said, “is to make one automobile like another automobile, to make them all alike, to make them come through the factory just alike; just as one pin is like another pin when it comes from a pin factory, or one match is like another match when it comes from match factory.”
That's fine for manufacturing inanimate objects. However, when you insist on trying to make literature, film, television, theatre and audio recordings by the same principle, you are out of your mind.
“The way to make automobiles,” he said, “is to make one automobile like another automobile, to make them all alike, to make them come through the factory just alike; just as one pin is like another pin when it comes from a pin factory, or one match is like another match when it comes from match factory.”
That's fine for manufacturing inanimate objects. However, when you insist on trying to make literature, film, television, theatre and audio recordings by the same principle, you are out of your mind.
In “The Magnificent Ambersons,” people of the past consider a future filled with cars.
https://youtu.be/vA1fVHBWuBU?si=YEgPckBbYqnv_C7c
The book I indicate below explains a lot about how cars dominate the urban landscape. It's a good read
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Book by Henry Grabar