OK, steel is not the only material which defines modernity. Plastics also define modernity. This magic material is so lightwheight and maleable, but at the same time impregnable, resistant (too resistant, some will say), and most importantly - cheap! And, once invented, it quickly permeats civil life and industry.
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| - OK, steel is not the only material which defines modernity. Plastics also define modernity. This magic material is so lightwheight and maleable, but at the same time impregnable, resistant (too resistant, some will say), and most importantly - cheap! And, once invented, it quickly permeats civil life and industry.
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- Roland Barthes
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| - Nothing on this earth lasts forever. Except maybe plastic.
- In the hierarchy of the major poetic substances, plastic figures as a disgraced material, lost between the effusiveness of rubber and the flat hardness of metal.
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| - OK, steel is not the only material which defines modernity. Plastics also define modernity. This magic material is so lightwheight and maleable, but at the same time impregnable, resistant (too resistant, some will say), and most importantly - cheap! And, once invented, it quickly permeats civil life and industry. One of the greatest uses of plastics is in the sea, where wheight matters greatly. Plastics allow a veritable revolution in sea activity: they improve the working of the Fishing Boats, and also allow the construction of Offshore Oil Rig, and consequent use of the much more abundand sea-based deposits of Oil.
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