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Why is my refrigerator, which is only three years, crashed twice? Why I had to buy four MP3 players in the last seven years? Why my new computer, which cost me a fortune for a couple of years, going so slow?

All we ever asked these questions. Even, we have compared the latest products with antiquated radios used by our parents of young and still working perfectly, while the gadgets work we recently purchased at most five years.

Our products obsolete
In it, we examine the concept of “planned obsolescence, a strategy used by large technology companies to encourage consumption. For example, a bulb may be designed to last a hundred years, but companies prefer them with an estimated life of thousand hours to sell more. The example of the bulbs is paradigmatic, as the makers of this product were the main inventors of this practice, at least questionable.

Occurred during the decade of the twenties of last century, when they agreed to limit the life of a single bulb to a thousand hours. In the film, is shown, constructed before that time, and that continues to burn today, without being damaged. Indeed, the first light bulbs were sold in 1881, lasted an average of 1,500 hours, almost a third more than today. Read the rest of this entry »

Research conducted by the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) shows that 92% of the national sector willing to invest next year. The figure represents an increase in comparison to 2010, when 89.6% of industries have invested.

The average investment must also suffer high of 7%, from R $ 6.344 million in 2010 to R $ 6.798 next year. From 2009 to 2010, with the resumption of investment after the financial crisis, the rise was even greater than 80%.

Among the companies that invested this year, 94.8% plan to do the same in 2011. Among those who have not invested, the percentage drops to 68.1%.

According to CNI, the investment plans for next year remain focused on productive capacity. Only 21.3% of enterprises are mainly targeted at the launch of new products.

Plans are also increasingly targeted for the domestic market, with 77.8% of surveyed companies focusing mainly or exclusively the public.

Investments in 2010
According to the survey, 61.4% of industrial companies could invest as planned this year. Other 37.5% made their investments in part, and only 1.1% of cases the investment has been postponed or canceled.

“The revaluation of the demand / high idle and economic uncertainty were the main reasons for deferment of all or part of investment plans. However, points out the problem of difficulties with bureaucracy – the third main issue – reported by 31.9% of companies have not realized their investment plans as planned, compared with 16.0% in 2009, “says CNI in a statement.

Demand
Among the companies surveyed, 23.4% say that the current installed capacity is less than adequate to meet demand in 2011. These companies plan to invest 98.1% in 2011.

Most of the industry believes it has sufficient production capacity to meet expected demand: 67.7% of companies responded that the current capacity is adequate, while only 8.9% believe they have more than adequate capacity.