Can Openers - The Innovative, Crucial, but Oddly Low-Quality Everyday Tool  — Christopher Roosen

Can Openers - The Innovative, Crucial, but Oddly Low-Quality Everyday Tool — Christopher Roosen

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I’d like to ‘open up’ the story of can openers. I think the failure of everyday can openers to much improve beyond their invention can tell us a lot about a whole class of made things that have become cheap and disposable commodities. It describes an arc of an invention where it reaches some sort of

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Can Openers - The Innovative, Crucial, but Oddly Low-Quality Everyday Tool — Christopher Roosen

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Can Openers - The Innovative, Crucial, but Oddly Low-Quality Everyday Tool — Christopher Roosen

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Can Openers - The Innovative, Crucial, but Oddly Low-Quality Everyday Tool — Christopher Roosen

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Can Openers - The Innovative, Crucial, but Oddly Low-Quality Everyday Tool — Christopher Roosen

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Can Openers - The Innovative, Crucial, but Oddly Low-Quality Everyday Tool — Christopher Roosen

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Can Openers - The Innovative, Crucial, but Oddly Low-Quality Everyday Tool — Christopher Roosen

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Can Openers - The Innovative, Crucial, but Oddly Low-Quality Everyday Tool — Christopher Roosen

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Can Openers - The Innovative, Crucial, but Oddly Low-Quality Everyday Tool — Christopher Roosen

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Can Openers - The Innovative, Crucial, but Oddly Low-Quality Everyday Tool — Christopher Roosen