Planned Obsolescence

Planned obsolescence is one of the centerpieces of supply and demand. Consumers require a new part which manufacturers need to produce. Moore’s Law refers to computer chip memory, but literally all products proliferate themselves effortlessly out of existence. Mirror neurons at work? Remember that typewriter in The Shining and the chill you felt when you read the words. No computer screen can complete with that that piece of paper, but try to locate an old Royal or for that matter an ink cartridge. There are always stores that cater to antiquities and small battalion of Luddites who insist on using only out of date items that conjure a lost past, but you're likely to dismiss the horse and buggy when you need to get wherever you are going. 

read the review of The Wormhole Society by Francis Levy in Kirkus.

also read the review of The Wormhole Society (graphic novel version) by Francis Levy and Joseph Silver in Booklife