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“giles slade”

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  • Big Disconnect

    The Story of Technology and Loneliness

    by Giles Slade ...
    Smart phones and social media sites may be contemporary fixations, but using technology to replace face-to-face interactions is not a new cultural phenomenon. Throughout our history, intimacy with machines has often supplanted mutual human connection. This book reveals how consumer technologies changed from analgesic devices that soothed the loneliness of a newly urban generation to prosthetic ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Made to Break

    Technology and Obsolescence in America

    by Giles Slade ...
    Narrated by Michael Puttonen ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 55 min

    If you've replaced a computer lately--or a cell phone, a camera, a television--chances are, the old one still worked. And chances are even greater that the latest model won't last as long as the one it replaced. Welcome to the world of planned obsolescence--a business model, a way of life, and a uniquely American invention that this eye-opening book explores from its beginnings to its perilous ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus