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For 90 years, lightbulbs were designed to burn out. Now that's coming to LED bulbs
Doctorow, Cory
Article
2016
Boingboing.net
In 1924, representatives of the world's leading lightbulb manufacturers formed Phoebus, a cartel that fixed the average life of an incandescent bulb at 1,000 hours, ensuring that people would have to ...

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Design for the Real World
Human Ecology and Social Change
Papanek, Victor
Book
1970
While two-thirds of the world's population lives in poverty, valuable human and natural resources are used to produce: fur-covered toilet seats, electronic nail polish dryers, diapers for parakeets, a...


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