The More You Know ★
The More You Know ★
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114 Years Young: Light Bulbs Before Planned Obsolescence
"We call this planned obsolescence: the practice of designing products with a pre-determined expiration date aimed at forcing consumers into repeat purchases. Since the mid-1900s, more and more products have been literally designed to fail. In some cases, we seem to have fully accepted cyclic purchasing (think, for example, of the constant replacing of our electronic devices) or we are embarrassed into doing so (think fashion and the stigma of driving an old car). Other times, like with the light bulb, we just assume that this is the best engineers can do."
the bulb cam really got me:
http://www.centennialbulb.org/ca…