Made to Break

Technology and Obsolescence in America

Giles Slade

  • Winner, 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Environment/Ecology/Nature Category

Introduction

1. Repetitive Consumption

2. The Annual Model Change

3. Hard Times

4. Radio, Radio

5. The War and Postwar Progress

6. The Fifties and Sixties

7. Chips

8. Weaponizing Planned Obsolescence

9. Cell Phones and E-Waste

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Made to Break
  • A photo of the author

Photo by Liam Mathew Slade

Giles Slade is an independent scholar and freelance writer.