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Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America Giles Slade
Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America
Giles Slade
In this history of 20th-century technology, Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for America’s rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. But by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, he argues, we may well be shortening the future of our way of life.
336 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 1, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674025721 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 336 |
| Dimensions | 211 × 154 × 21 mm · 312 g |
| Language | English |