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.
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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.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 330 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2005036315 Type of material Book Personal name Slade, Giles. Main title Made to break: technology and obsolescence in America / Giles Slade. Published/Created Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006. Description 330 p.; 22 cm. ISBN 0674022033 9780674022034 LC classification T173.8. S595 2006 LC Subjects Technological innovations--United States. Product obsolescence--United States. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-312) and index. Dewey class no. 609.73 Geographic area code n-us---National bib no. GBA622881 National bib agency no. 013402932 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocm62679850
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