In Brave New World, "Ford"- the founder of Ford Motor Company and the Assembly line, is mentioned all over the place in the book. He is replaced in place of god, just like technology over people. I think of it as a situational irony because we (maybe John) will never expect him to be a god in the future. Huxley is trying to say that we are spending too much time in technology and we are just waiting for technology to overtake us. Daily examples are texting all the time, Video Games instead of playing outside etc. People are getting lazy and are heading toward becoming this:
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