Toyota built it with no assembly line, and no robots, only craftsmen. Wood paneling was cut so the grain runs continuously across the cabin, the dashboard clock was crystal glass. Under the hood sat the only V12 Toyota has ever put in a passenger car, a decision Toyota took for its smoothness.
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We outsourced the manufacturing of the technology that we invented. Now, we depend on other countries, including our greatest strategic adversaries, to make all of the hardware that runs our businesses, powers our economy, and protects our national security. That's insane.
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We are certainly looking at the end of Europe Inc. as a major manufacturing presence in the world. At the same time, we're looking at the end of China, Inc. as a major manufacturing presence in the world. And either of those issues would be a globe-spanning catastrophe impacts. And to have them both at the same time, at the same time, we have a global energy crisis.
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An expert thinks he knows it all, but he's also rather inhibited by his experience, his knowledge, and he finds it difficult to steer off the well-known path. Whereas if you have a lack of experience, but huge curiosity, and you approach your new challenge with naivety, I think it's sort of easier for you as an inexperienced designer to come up with something different and to follow a different path.
James Dyson — The Business of Tech