Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America

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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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EAN/ISBN:: 9780674025721
Medium:: Paperback
Number of pages:: 336
Publication date:: 2007-10-30
Publisher:: Harvard University Press
Languages:: english
Manufacturer:: Unknown

EAN/ISBN:: 9780674025721
Medium:: Paperback
Number of pages:: 336
Publication date:: 2007-10-30
Publisher:: Harvard University Press
Languages:: english
Manufacturer:: Unknown

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