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Nature 442, 139 (13 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/442139a; Published online 12 July 2006
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BOOK REVIEWED-Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America
by Giles Slade
Harvard University Press: 2006. 336 pp. $27.95/£18.95/
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The subtitle of Giles Slade's Made to Break suggests that the book is an update of Vance Packard's The Hidden Persuaders (Longmans, 1957), which I remember reading as a student in the 1960s. At the time I was surprisedand shocked to discover that US industrywas deliberately producing products with a short lifespan.
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