"A few months ago I talked to an architect friend, who lives in Los Angeles, about the dubiousness of the opinion reached without thinking, that all the current products that we consume nowadays are actually throwaway objects, with a very short useful life. We agreed that it is not always like that. We talked about how, coincidentally, we both had SANYO 14 inch televisions. To be more precise both had Black Trinitron tubes. After fifteen years of use, the little televisions continued, continued and continued working as on the first day, exceeding the useful life of older televisions that supposedly had the stereotype of being made to last longer.
It would seem as if the little 14" television incomprehensibly surpassed the logic of its stereotyped existence within a consumer society. I don't know if after this comment, now public, Sanyo will introduce something into their new televisions so that they do not last so long and sales increase. The fact is that the little television has fully exceeded the useful life of some of the buildings that are constructed nowadays and that are supposedly intended to last somewhat longer than a television. .../..."
published in: METALOCUS-021 | José Juan Barba. 2007
Why, despite advances in technology, consumer products last less and less? Joan Úbeda and Cosima Dannoritzer interviewed, producer and director of the documentary "Buy, pull, buy " that reveal the secret: planned obsolescence, or what is, deliberately reducing the life of a product to increase consumption . A concept that was implemented in the twenties to the bulbs (05/01/1911).
