Made to Break Technology and Obsolescence in America

Name: Made to Break Technology and Obsolescence in America
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ISBN: 9780674025721

ISBN-10: 0674025725

ISBN-13: 9780674025721

Edition: 2006

Authors: Giles Slade

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If you've replaced a computer lately--or a cell phone, a camera, a television--chances are, the old one still worked. And chances are even greater that the latest model won't last as long as the one it replaced. Welcome to the world of planned obsolescence--a business model, a way of life, and a uniquely American invention that this eye-opening book explores from its beginnings to its perilous implications for the very near future. Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. America invented everything that is now disposable, Giles Slade tells us, and he explains how disposability was in fact a necessary condition for America's…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Giles Slade is an independent scholar and freelance writer.



Introduction



Repetitive Consumption



The Annual Model Change



Hard Times



Radio, Radio



The War and Postwar Progress



The Fifties and Sixties



Chips



Weaponizing Planned Obsolescence



Cell Phones and E-Waste


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index