planned obsolescence en · NOUN
Etymology
Coined by Bernard London in 1932 and popularized in the 1960 book The Waste Makers by Vance Packard.
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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.
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.
2010, Tim Cooper, Longer Lasting Products, Gower Publishing, →ISBN, page 77:And Brooks Stevens, a leading industrial designer, explained obsolescence planning in these terms: “Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and everybody who can read without moving his lips should know it by now. We make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then next year we deliberately introduce something that will make those products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.[…]”
1960, Vance Packard, quoting Brooks Stevens, The Waste Makers, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 46: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.
1932, Bernard London, “Ending the Depression Through Planned Obsolescence”, in The New Prosperity, published 1933, →OCLC:
Synonyms
programmed obsolescence · built-in obsolescence
Translations (22)
pl zaplanowana żywotność produktu (policy) · ja 計画的陳腐化 (policy) · pl planowane ograniczenie trwałości produktu (policy) · fr obsolescence programmée (policy) · pl planowane postarzanie produktu (policy) · cs plánované zastarávání (policy) · de geplanter Verschleiß (policy) · es obsolescencia programada (policy) · da planlagt forældelse (policy) · cmn 計劃報廢 /计划报废 (policy) · sv planerat åldrande (policy) · ko 계획적 구식화 (policy) · pt obsolescência programada (policy) · ca obsolescència planificada (policy) · pt obsolescência planejada (policy) · el προγραμματισμένη απαξίωση (policy) · de Produktvergreisung (policy) · fi suunniteltu vanheneminen (policy) · nb planlagt foreldelse (policy) · sv inbyggt åldrande (policy) · de geplante Obsoleszenz (policy) · ko 계획적 진부화 (policy)