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by wahern 364 days ago
Plastic, in the industrial/commercial products context, was always a very broad term. In addition to being a broad technical term in industry, it quickly became a moniker for the mid-century industrial chemicals revolution similar to the way "computers" was for the 80s, "the internet" was for the 90s/2000s, "social media" for the 2010s, or "AI" for the 2020s.