Made to Break Technology and Obsolescence in America

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...

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Slade, Giles
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Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2009]
Zusammenfassung:
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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1 online resource
ISBN:
9780674043756
DOI:
10.4159/9780674043756
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