planned obsolescence
nounEtymology
Coined by Bernard London in 1932 and popularized in the 1960 book The Waste Makers by Vance Packard.
Definitions
A policy of deliberately planning or designing a product with a limited useful life, so…
A policy of deliberately planning or designing a product with a limited useful life, so it will become obsolete or nonfunctional after a certain period.
- An equally important advantage of a system of planned obsolescence would be its function in providing a new reservoir from which to draw income for the operation of the Government.
- To the general public planned obsolescence first came to notoriety through the highly popular writings of Vance Packard (1963), who slammed Stevens in his bestselling book The Waste Makers.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for planned obsolescence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA