Next issue of Adbusters is out,
says soapbox. A friend was telling me about the dawning self-immolation of the video game market last night, and this is on topic.
Planned obsolescence became one of most powerful psychological marketing ploys ever invented - our consumer culture today would be unthinkable without it.
But design-based behavior modification doesn't have to be ultimately banal and destructive. In the right hands, it can be used to do something much more interesting than just speed up the consumer purchasing cycle.
