02628nam 22006255 450 991045569590332120210916011321.00-674-04375-810.4159/9780674043756(CKB)2440000000013092(EBL)3300262(SSID)ssj0000485689(PQKBManifestationID)12194382(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485689(PQKBWorkID)10610073(PQKB)11129058(DE-B1597)457768(OCoLC)1013944859(OCoLC)1049624876(OCoLC)979969665(DE-B1597)9780674043756(MiAaPQ)EBC3300262(EXLCZ)99244000000001309220190708d2009 fg engur|n|---|||||txtccrMade to Break Technology and Obsolescence in America /Giles SladeCambridge, MA :Harvard University Press,[2009]©20071 online resource (336 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-674-02572-5 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 --IndexMade 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.Product obsolescence -- United StatesTechnological innovations -- United StatesEngineering & Applied SciencesHILCCTechnology - GeneralHILCCElectronic books.Product obsolescence -- United States.Technological innovations -- United States.Engineering & Applied SciencesTechnology - General609.73ZG 9080rvkSlade Giles1032428DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910455695903321Made to Break2450279UNINA