02553nam 22006254a 450 991097457010332120200520144314.09780674043756067404375810.4159/9780674043756(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(Perlego)1133426(EXLCZ)99244000000001309220051214d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMade to break technology and obsolescence in America /Giles Slade1st ed.Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20061 online resource (336 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780674025721 0674025725 Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-312) and index.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.Technological innovationsUnited StatesProduct obsolescenceUnited StatesTechnological innovationsProduct obsolescence609.73ZG 9080rvkSlade Giles1806731MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910974570103321Made to break4356074UNINA