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The plenitude : creativity, innovation, and making stuff
- Title
- The plenitude : creativity, innovation, and making stuff / Rich Gold.
- Author
- Gold, Rich.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 111 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen, for example, is home to stuff galore, and every appliance, every utensil, every thing, is compound - composed of tens, hundreds, even thousands of other things. Although each piece of stuff satisfies some desire, it also creates the need for even more stuff: cereal demands a spoon; a television demands a remote. Rich Gold calls this dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff "the Plenitude." And in this book - at once cartoon treatise, autobiographical reflection, and practical essay in moral philosophy - he tells us how to understand and live with it."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Simplicity
- Uniform Title
- Simplicity (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- I. Introduction -- II. The four creative hats I've worn -- Science -- Art -- Design -- Engineering -- The other wall -- III. Seven patterns of innovation -- Necessity is the mother of invention -- It's a thing of genius -- The big Kahuna -- The future exists -- Colonization -- Stuff desires to be better stuff -- Change the definition -- IV. The plenitude -- Life is fecund -- The plenitude of the mall -- Progress and industry -- In my most cynical moments ... -- Problem one : the bland and the ugly -- Problem two : the real and the faux -- Problem three : the unplenitude -- Problem four : destroying the world -- Problem five : how many genetically modified organisms ... -- Solution one : pass a law -- Solution two : reject the plenitude -- Solution three : quality over quantity -- Solution four : zero-growth economies -- Solution five : just make the good stuff -- Solution six : the real problem is too many people -- Solution seven : just love it -- A moral.
- ISBN
- 9780262072892
- 0262072890
- 9780262543798
- 0262543796
- LCCN
- 2007002120
- OCLC
- ocm79256818
- 79256818
- SCSB-1443836
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library