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A cultural catalog of everyday things rapidly turning into rarities-from landlines to laugh tracks. So many things have disappeared from our day-to-day world, or are on the verge of vanishing. Some we may already think of as ancient relics, like typewriters (and their accompanying bottles of correction fluid). Others seem like they were here just yesterday, like boom boxes and CDs. We may feel fond nostalgia for certain items of yore: encyclopedias,...
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Traces the untold story of planned obsolescence, the deliberate shortening of product life spans by manufacturers to guarantee consumer demand, from its beginnings in the 1920s to how it has shaped our throwaway consumer culture of today. Includes nine related short films.
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