Henry Ford reimagined people as labor- providing robots, solvers of an equation in which the variable for time could be eternally squeezed. He built, in his brain, or in the jungle, an imitation utopia for them, an ersatz Dearborn, in which they could never quite make themselves live. He grew old resenting the failure of actual humans to enact a future from which he had quite unconsciously excluded them.

— Midwest Futures by Phil Christman (Page 66)