Consumer society is a very wide topic about byers and sellers . Consumer society it is a society of all customers , byers and clients , which are interacting with each other around the world . It is shopping , selling , great bargains and tricks.
First, i want to tell you about future technologies of fabricating and consuming .
Products of the future.
Lets think about a normal day. What do you usually
wear? What technology do you use? What’s your
house like? Now let’s see what everyday life will
be like in the future .
What we will be wearing in the future ? While some scientists are developing testiles that allow the wearer to generate electricity as their walk and others are wolking on clothes that monitoring your fitness , Dr manel Torres and prof Paul Lucham have ivited a spray on fabric .These spray contains minute cotton , wool , linen or acrylic fibres that dry instantly on your skin and turn into t-shirt. You can wash it and wear it again , like a simpe t-shirt .When you get bored , you can dissolve it and make something new . It is great technology , because we can wear something new every day , dontneed sizes and will have no old things . Always , Dr.Torres looking on soray on bandages and furniture covering .
3D printing .Wouldnt it be great , if you could just think about something you want to prin it on a pc . Whell , you can. For the first time , scientist printed a fully working machines with no assembly required . It was bicycle , called the Airbike . It is as strong as aluminium , but much lighter . Medical researches is working on a printing body parts .
House of the future . As you arrive home with the shopping,
Grace tells you who phoned while you were
out. You put your groceries down on the
kitchen counter and she gives you recipe
ideas, tells you how to cook them , and gives
you dietary advice. As you move into the
living room she organises your evening
entertainment. A window made ofsmart
glass becomes a TV, wallpaper changes on
demand and every surface doubles as a
touch screen with instant Internet access.
But Grace isn ’t am ember of the family, at
least not yet. She’s a network of voice activated
computers that runs the e-home -
the house of the future. It was made by Microsoft for demostratin technologies. So , soon we will be talking with walls !
Wertical farm. Stories o f The Hanging Gardens of
Babylon, one of the seven wonders of the ancient
world, tell of a structure with lush green gardens on different levels
many metres high. These are long gone, but as our modern consumer society continues to drain the world of its resources, the population
rises and food prices soar, a modern-day equivalent may soon be
springing up in your neighbourhood!According to the statistics , population of our planet will rise to over 9 billions in 2050. We will be need extra farmin place . So there are great idea , how to solve these problem . Lets make farms in high . These idea is very simple . Just as an apartment block has different storeys, a vertical farm
will have many different floors growing a variety of fruit and vegetables.The walls will be made of glass to allow in
sunlight and instead of soil, the produce will be grown in a solution of
nutrients and water. These building will get energy from sun and wind power . Just one 30 storey building can feed 10 000 people .
Now , we can a little bit better imagine our future life with all goods and problems. Now lets talk about our present life .
Made in USA.
Who doesn’t wear jeans, drink cola and
eat potato chips? Almost everyone does!
But have you ever wondered
what the stories are behind
these products?
Jeans . The story of jeans goes back to the
19th century when sailors from
Genoa, Italy, wore durable cotton
and wool denim trousers. Then, in
1853, 24-year-old Levi Strauss
travelled to San Francisco from
Germany and decided to design
trousers for manual workers from
this m aterial. They were a big hit,
and by the 1950s jeans had
become very popular w ith a
whole generation of young
people. At first, many places
such as theatres and restaurants
banned them. Nowadays,
jeans are a staple item of
clothing in everyone’s
wardrobe.
Potato chips. In 1853, George Crum was
working as a chef at a restaurant
in New York. One day, a customer
sent Crum’s French fries back to
the kitchen, saying they were too
thick. Crum got very angry and
decided to take revenge on the
fussy diner; he made a new
batch o f fries so thin and crispy
that the customer couldn’t eat
them w ith a fork! To George’s
surprise, the guest was thrilled
w ith them and other diners began
asking fo r them , too. Fastforw
ard to the 21st century and,
in the US alone, sales of potato
chips amount to over $6 billion
per year.
Coca-cola. John Pemberton, a pharm acist from Georgia, invented the
original Coca-Cola formula in a three-legged brass kettle in his
backyard! The soft drink was first sold as a medicine in a
chemist’s on 8th May, 1886. Dr Pemberton sold about 9
servings each day. He made about $50 in the firs t year, but
unfortunately it cost him about $70 to make the cola! In 1887,
a businessman bought the formula and by 1900 sales had risen
by over 4000%. Coca-Cola remains the most famous soft drink
in the world, but its exact ingredients are still a trade secret! One more interesting fact, is that first coca cola was including cocaine . It was an antidepressant . But some time later , cocaine became forbidden and excluded from coca cola .
Not all of my information are just interesting . There are some usefull information . It is about trics of the trade . Why is your basket overflowing
by the time you get to the checkout? Well,
the answer lies in the tricks supermarkets use
to make you spend more. As you walk into the supermarket, the delicious smell of
freshly-baked bread hits you and you im m ediately start
feeling hungry. Then, right by the entrance, you see
beautiful displays o f fresh and colourful produce,
making you feel even hungrier. This is all intentional,
because every supermarket knows that hungry customers
buy more fru it and vegetables.
Who can resist a 'buy one get one free’ deal? Yet, with
around one third of the food the world produces going to
waste, is that second chocolate cheesecake really
necessary? In the same way, '3 for £6 ’ might sound like a
great bargain, but always check how much an item costs
individually. You might not be saving very much at all and
you’ll have two extra items that you don't really need.
Supermarkets know that customers tend to choose
products that are at eye level, so the items on the m iddle
shelves are usually the most expensive ones. Cheaper
brands are on high shelves that are hard to reach. So,
remember to give your neck a w orkout and check out
what's on the top shelves.
Don’t expect supermarkets to use packaging strategies
that make it easy to work out which goods are the
cheapest either. It may be easier to grab some prepackaged
apples, but they're also a lot more expensive
than loose ones.
All of these trics are realy sneaky , but there are way , how to resist it . Just think , which things are you realy need and will you use it for all 100%
So , be be careful with wasting money , products and time . Communicate with anothers consumers and you will get just qualty things for good price .
Расскажу я все это , естественно , не в слово в слово , а еще более просто по мере возможности .
