GM Down!

This is the equivalent of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.

I am scared, this looks ominous.

The Model T was introduced on October 1, 1908. A new age for civilization started, production lines for cars. Extending the idea by Samuel Colt:


"Colt never claimed to have invented the revolver, as his design was merely a more practical adaption of Collier's revolving flintlock (which was patented in England and achieved great popularity there).^[5] He did, however, greatly contribute to interchangeable parts. "Unhappy with high cost of hand made guns, and with the knowledge that some parts of guns were currently being made by machine, Colt wanted all the parts on every colt gun to be interchangeable and made by machine. His goal was the assembly line."^{[citation needed]} In a letter to his father Samuel Colt wrote, “The first workman would receive two or three of the most important parts…and would affix these and pass them on to the next who add a part and pass the growing article on to another who would do the same, and so on until the complete arm is put together.”^{[citation needed]"}



This paragraph taken from Wikipedia  sets the timetable of the idea presented here. Colt's work started in the third decade of the nineteenth century.

We have in front of us almost two hundred years of Human History. The American Golden Age. Progress.

Is this the end of progress?

I hope not.