Ford went from inventing the assembly line to full deployment in 3 years, cutting car-building time 88%
2C_ornot2C · x · 2026-10-31
Ethan Mollick pushes back on the oft-repeated claim that electricity took 30 years to show up in productivity stats, and that AI will follow suit. Not every technology behaves that way: Ford went from inventing the assembly line to full deployment in just 3 years, cutting car-building time by 88%. The takeaway: don't assume slow productivity gains for AI based on the electrification analogy alone.
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