Electricity's Economic Impact Requires New Factory Designs
General-purpose technologies like electricity require time to be fully adopted and significantly change work. Early factories that added electricity to existing setups saw little difference. The true economic transformation occurred when new factories were designed with readily available electricity in mind, altering factory layouts and work methods.
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“with general purpose technologies is they often take time to do something. kind of really get adopted in a way that really changes our work. They're these kind of classic case studies about electrification, that at first you had these factories that they tried to like add electricity to the mix. It didn't really make a big difference. But then what really changed the economy is when you had people building brand new factories that were built on the idea that there would be readily available electricity and that completely changed the layout of the factory the way people worked.”
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