Made to break : technology and obsolescence in America / / Giles Slade
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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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| 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: | 9780674043756 |
| 0674043758 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910974570103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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