12∞ · Question 11.7.4
What is planned obsolescence?
Designing products to fail, to become unfashionable, or to be impossible to repair, so that customers must buy again.
From the book 12∞ Twelve to Infinity by D.R. Davenport. The full answer is free to read with an iBelieve account.
Where it sits in the book
- Part
- 11: How Humanity Got Here
- Gate
- 11.7: Technology Without Wisdom
- In print
- Page 375
- ← 11.7.3 · Were the Luddites simply against technology?
- 11.7.5 → · How did human experience become a raw material?
- All of Part 11
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