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All posts filed under “Cell phones”

1 September, 2006

Some interesting aspects of built-in obsolescence

A lot of wasted computing power

This San Francisco Chronicle review of Giles Slade’s Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America (which I’ve just ordered and look forward to reading and reviewing here in due course) mentions some interesting aspects of built-in (planned) obsolescence – and planned failure – in technology and product design:
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