Made to break : technology and obsolescence in America / Giles Slade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slade, Giles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--United States.

Technological innovations.

Product obsolescence--United States.

Product obsolescence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-312) and index.

ISBN:

9780674043756

0674043758

OCLC:

1013944859