The chapters of Future Shock by Alvin Toffler brought up good social, political, economical, and technological points in regards to how different levels of societies view their possessions. It was not shocking to find out all the things we throw away everyday, I noticed while I was reading that how many people were throwing out coffee cups that if they had bought a re-usable one they could have just refilled. I never thought of all the things we take for granted like paper products like tissues vs handkerchiefs. Everything in todays society is made to be thrown out and reused, there is a lot of information that suggests that the Iphone batteries are manufactured to only last a year or two so that people have to buy new batteries before the rest of the phone dies. Many of the things we purchase to eat are in disposable containers, my recent dinner that I purchased came in a styrofoam container, my pop came in a plastic bottle. The bottle itself is recyclable and can be reused but wasn’t really designed for it. Technology on the other hand has been improving so fast that throwing out your current piece of technology and getting the latest and greatest makes everything “faster.” Fads on the other hand that come and go are a great way to move a bunch of products that are not meant to be around a long time and then when they are no longer popular then they are thrown away. There are a lot of things that can be easily thrown away and technology has only perpetuated this.