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Re: On planned obsolescence
Posted by Maggie (Guest) - Tuesday, September 19 2006, 1:57:33 (CEST)
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I first heard this term when I started college, (umpteen years ago). It was in a book called, Why nothing works : the anthropology of daily life
by Marvin Harris

A great book!

Even the screws by which American-made helicopter sent to free the hostages in Iran, failed, because of planned-obselescence.

Does anyone know for sure who was the first to coin this term? Was it C. Wright Mills?



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