Final Paper Blog One

As of right now I have figured that doing Giles Slade's book Made to Break will be a more effective paper to write because I found that book to be really interesting. Aside from quotes from Brave New World and the book Made to Break, I have felt that the overall trend for the paper will be how America will want to stay on its path of a disposable society but it will be deterred to change its course forcefully as the world will not be able to sustain the United States and China at the same time when it comes to disposable societies. The other situation that I see is technology going diagonally instead of progressing completely forward. As Giles states, our landfills are increasing with toxic technological waste from the chemicals in television, phones, etc. What I feel I'll need to look into is how technology will need to be reverse engineered. What I mean is, all things I believe in the future will need to be produced where when they become broken or need to be replaced it will be easy to break them down and recycle them into base components. This form of technology I believe will take time away from us forming higher versions of our trending technology we have already. Also I feel it would be good to research and try and argue the fact that technology of the future will need to be somewhat biodegradable. I think that this will be true because as I have found out from research many of the elements used in making a lot of the technology we use right now is being fast depleted or is polluting the earth. There is still a large amount of research needed to be done but I think corporations will finally get that "light bulb" enlightenment where they realize that recycling objects will be cheaper in the future then to make fully new objects. Also as a cultural development I think people will begin to deter from their own obsolesence and really start to demand products that have lasting appeal and durability. Again more research will need to be done to support these conclusions but I think I am definitely on the right path for this paper. Also it makes things easier when the book has some interesting takes on the future from shedding light on the past. I think it will be a good point to argue that much of our disposability still is derived from many of the learned traits of obsolesence that were instilled upon previous generations dating back all the way to the depression, the "tin lizzy" vs GM wars, disposable radios, AM versus FM, etc.