Looking for something interesting to browse this Sunday afternoon? Head over to the Levittown, PA: Building the Suburban Dream exhibit. A fun look back at a development that shaped the American Suburban experience in the 1950s. So much of what's to be seen here will be very familiar to baby boomers who grew up in the suburbs. What is interesting is to compare and contrast it to suburban living today.
Given only a passing treatment is the incredible story of mass production where workers reversed Henry Fords assembly line where goods moved down the line to assembly workers to a system where workers moved from site to site performing specialized and standardized tasks on each house. Through this system they were able to build over 17,000 houses in five years.
I guess disrupting technologies and processes have been with us for a long long time.
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