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

• Autore: Slade Giles
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 609.73
• Soggetto topico: Technological innovations - United States; Product obsolescence - United States
• Classificazione: ZG 9080
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-312) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Made to Break
• ISBN: 0-674-04375-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820652303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II