About two years ago I bought a car adapter for my iPhone, enabling me to play my phone through my stereo. This car adapter is the inspiration for today’s post. Here is a photo:
Recently I have become more aware of planned obsolescence as I have been taking a Coursera course on entrepreneurship. While I had understood planned obsolescence to some degree prior to enrolling in the course (I mean, don’t we all say, “They don’t make things like they used to.”)? I really did not understand how purposeful and deliberate this is. In a day and age when items should be lasting longer, they are being designed to break at record speeds in the name of profits and capitalism – and at the expense of our environment and consumer pocketbooks. Read the rest of this entry »
Fortuitous Forty!!! 