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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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Made to Break, Giles Slade
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- Made to Break
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Giles Slade
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN10
- 0674025725
- ISBN13
- 9780674025721
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, Business, Business & Management, Technology & Engineering, Science & Math, Science, Economics, Environmental Themes, Technology, Ecology
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- 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.