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Human societies are often characterised by the objects they create" the invention of basic tools, the eras of the steam train and the automobile, the revolution of the printing press, computerised society, and so on. In contemporary society, however, the production and consumption of objects is on a different scale. While a typical middle class home of the early 1800s in the West might have contained several hundred objects, in the twenty-first century we may have thousands of objects. We live in a consumer society increasingly shaped by the consuming of a vast array of objects.