Made to Break : Technology and Obsolescence in America
Giles Slade (Author)
Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. Giles Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well
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9780674043756, 9780674025721, 0674043758, 0674025725
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Introduction 1. Repetitive Consumption 2. The Annual Model Change 3. Hard Times 4. Radio, Radio 5. The War and Postwar Progress 6. The Fifties and Sixties 7. Chips 8. Weaponizing Planned Obsolescence 9. Cell Phones and E-Waste Notes Acknowledgments Index
In English
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