This is the title of H. Ford's 1926 classic "Today and Tomorrow" first chapter. Most of us perceive Ford as a company founder and owner, maybe a big capitalist. Maybe someone will see Ford as an inventor, constructor, engineer. There's maybe few people who remeber him as a father of the mass production.

I don't think anyone remembers Henry Ford as a man of a big idea. This idea was to make human life better by providing them with goods, money to buy that goods, and time to share their lifes with their families. Mass production was a key to achieve all of this and the history of 20th century clearly shows that Ford was right. Now we live very comfortably because we have wide access to many industrial products: from houses with walls painted with toxic-free paints, to cars, to computers, to books.

Ford found a way to cut working time to 8 hours a day and raise his workers wages to $5 a day (while other capitalists paid $2-2.50 then), while manufacturing cheapest cars of that time. Mass production seemed like magic, but I think it's a proof for the greateness of human mind.

I'd like to cite first words of his book to encourage you to read the whole "Today and tomorrow":

"We Are Being Born Into Opportunity.

For hundreds of years men have been talking about the lack of opportunity and the pressing need of dividing up things already in existence. Yet each year has seen some new idea brought forth and developed, and with it a whole new series of opportunities, until today we already have enough tested ideas which, put into practice, would take the world out of its sloughs and banish poverty by providing livings for all who will work. Only the old, outworn notions stand in the way of these new ideas. The world shackles itself, blinds its eyes, and then wonders why it cannot run!"

(H. Ford, S. Crowther "Today and tomorrow", copyright 1926 Doubleday NY, 1988, 2003 Productivity Press NY)

I wish you all to have your eyes never blind.