Hidden Origins
The Design of Decay: How Products Were Built to Fail
A Hidden Origins documentary tracing how Planned obsolescence moved through a documented historical mechanism into everyday life.
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Hidden Origins
Why Air Conditioning Was Never Meant for Human Comfort
We use air conditioning to stay comfortable, but it was never invented for us. Discover how a humidity crisis at a 1902 Brooklyn printing house forced young engineer Willis Carrier to build a machine to keep color paper prints from warping—accidentally inventing the mechanical climate control system