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==Relevance Today==
==Relevance Today==
Packard's books are still read today, and his first book, ''The Hidden Persuaders'', is currently in print again for its 50 year anniversary.<ref>http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Persuaders-Vance-Packard/dp/097884310X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299119679&sr=8-1</ref> Though there is a certain datedness in some of Packard's writing (not surprising considering its age) some of it appears remarkably prescient.
Packard's books are still read today, and his first book, ''The Hidden Persuaders'', is currently in print again for its 50-year anniversary.<ref>http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Persuaders-Vance-Packard/dp/097884310X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299119679&sr=8-1</ref> Though there is a certain datedness in some of Packard's writing (not surprising considering its age) some of it appears remarkably prescient.
His 1960 book ''The Waste Makers'' is particularly so. It is overall a critique of [[consumerism]] and [[planned obsolescence]]. In it, he discusses how products are designed cheaply in order to prompt consumers to buy replacements; how the lifetime of major products such as appliances and electronics was already declining, compared to the early 1950s; how people were going into debt in order to buy; and how excessive [[consumerism]] threatened the American character. He also suggested that we might one day mine [[landfill]]s to recover scare resources; though first implemented even earlier than 1960, landfill mining has only recently actually been attempted and discussed on a large scale.
His 1960 book ''The Waste Makers'' is particularly so. It is overall a critique of [[consumerism]] and [[planned obsolescence]]. In it, he discusses how products are designed cheaply in order to prompt consumers to buy replacements; how the lifetime of major products such as appliances and electronics was already declining, compared to the early 1950s; how people were going into debt in order to buy; and how excessive [[consumerism]] threatened the American character. He also suggested that we might one day mine [[landfill]]s to recover scare resources; though first implemented even earlier than 1960, landfill mining has only recently actually been attempted and discussed on a large scale.