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Made to break : technology and obsolescence in America / Giles Slade.
LIBRA T173.8 .S595 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slade, Giles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technological innovations--United States.
- Technological innovations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 330 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- support ever-shorter product lives we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.
- Contents:
- Repetitive consumption
- The annual model change
- Hard times
- Radio, radio
- The war and postwar progress
- The fifties and zixties
- Chips
- Weaponizing planned obsolescence
- Cell phones and e-waste.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-312) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674022033
- OCLC:
- 62679850
- Publisher Number:
- 9780674022034
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