Made to Break

Made to Break
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780674043756
ISBN-13 : 0674043758
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Made to Break by : Giles Slade

Download or read book Made to Break written by Giles Slade and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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