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If you've replaced a computer currently - or a cellular phone, a camera, a tv set - its likely that, the old one still performed. And its likely that sustained that the latest model won't carry on as long as the one it replaced. Welcome to the world of planned obsolescence - a business design, a way of life, and a exclusively American invention that this eye-opening publication explores from its beginnings to its perilous implications for the near future. Made to Break in the action is a brief history of 20th hundred years technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. America developed everything that is now disposable, Giles Slade tells us, and he talks about how disposability is at fact a required condition for America's rejection of traditions and our acceptance of change and impermanence. His audiobook shows us the ideas behind obsolescence at the job in such American milestones as the inventions of branding, product packaging, and advertising; the contest for market dominance between GM and Ford; the have difficulty for a nationwide communications network, the development of electronic technology - and with it the avalanche of digital consumer throw away that will overwhelm America's landfills and poison its water within the approaching decade. Background reserves a privileged place for those societies that built things to last - permanently, if possible. What place does it hold for a society addicted to consumption - a complete culture made to break? This publication gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to aid ever-shorter product lives we might well be shortening the future of our life-style as well.
