Henry Ford invented the assembly line and mass production techniques that revolutionized automobile manufacturing in the early 1900s. In the dystopian world described in the document, Ford is worshipped as a god-like figure and his assembly line techniques are used to mass produce and classify babies into social classes based on their intellectual abilities. Key aspects of life like sex, reproduction, and social hierarchies are tightly controlled and centered around Ford's principles of assembly line efficiency and mass production applied to human beings.