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Autore |
Slade Giles |
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Titolo |
Made to break : technology and obsolescence in America / / Giles Slade |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2006 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Technological innovations - United States |
Product obsolescence - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-312) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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