21st Century Dodos
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0007484666 / Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, October 2012
A fond farewell to the many inanimate objects, cultural icons and general stuff around us that find themselves on the verge of extinction.
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A fond farewell to the many inanimate objects, cultural icons, and general stuff around us that find themselves on the verge of extinction.There are many thousands of endangered species on the planet. If you include animals, insects, and plants, then about three species become extinct every hour of every day—that's almost 27,000 a year. Every single one of these is, of course, a tragedy but, let's be honest, we haven't really noticed. When the last Bolivian centipede pops his hundred clogs it is sad, but makes little difference to our daily lives. So this book isn't about them. Steve Stack instead investigates the many inanimate objects, the unsung cultural icons of society, which don't feature on any endangered list, don't have people raising money on street corners on their behalf, and don't feature in documentaries narrated by David Attenborough, but are just as likely to become extinct. Many already have. Coke can ring pulls, telephone boxes, VHS, cassette tapes, village post offices, the test card, hand-written letters, Spangles, classic ads of yesteryear—all of these and many many more are bid a fond farewell in this affectionate, but slightly irreverent tribute.
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