Posted on 08/07/06
In the throwaway culture, greed trumps need
Made to Break:Technology and Obsolescence in AmericaBy Giles SladeHarvard University Press,330 pages, $31.50Giles Slade has produced a riveting piece of cultural history to explain the veritable mushroom cloud of electronic waste threatening our planet, while hinting suggestively at why the public seems so detached from the crisis and even its role in creating it.
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