Made to Break

Many themes seem to converge in the text of Made to Break. Throughout the chapters that we have read so far there seems to be two very similar advances that stuck out. One was radio. It went from strictly AM broadcasting to FM, which is what everyone uses still today. AM radio did not even compare to FM. AM has a bunch of static and the quality is not good at all. FM is clear and sounds great! AM radio history compared to FM.
Another item that was used over another was nylon. It replaced silk. Nylon was less expensive and was made very durable at first. Wallace Carothers created Fiber 66, also known as nylon. This new innovation made silk not wanted as much. Nylon was cheaper and was "new." People seem to like new items more than the old. If there is a new fashion out there everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon and try it out. This is similar to radio because FM radio was the newer and better invention. People wanted to listen to FM more because it was much better to listen to and comprehend. The whole book is about newer technologies making the older ones obsolete, and these two innovations show that well.
Slade does well talking about the different technologies that were created and replaced, but he uses a lot of unnecessary information. I am more interested what products were replaced, not the history of the people in history. He also talks a lot about different authors and people in history. He references a lot of different authors that wrote about the same thing he is trying to present. I believe that he trys to back up his information too much. It is good that he does it, but he does it a lot and too often. He just needs to focus more on obsolescence and not so much on the people.