Extract
The Second Industrial Revolution
It's been said that only a staunch anti-Communist politician such as Richard Nixon could have gotten away with his historic thaw in relations with China.
And perhaps only the great-grandson of the founding patriarch of the American mass-produced automobile could flatly predict the imminent demise of the internal combustion engine, the very device his ancestor, Henry Ford, helped pioneer more than a century ago. At least, the younger Ford almost got away with it. Bill Ford Jr. did, in fact, say it straight out at a major automotive conference in 2000, when he was nonexecutive chairman of Ford Motor Co., a year before he was installed as CEO. "I believe cell-fuel vehicles will finally end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine as the do...See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
