“But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.”
David Harvey (1935) British anthropologist
Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 8, Fixed capital, p. 221
“Unfortunately, as technology has improved, that which was 'underground' now heads towards obsolescence.”
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