The consumer society is a human society strongly influenced by consumerism. The term describes a critical view of over-consumption and excessive production of short-lived or disposable items.

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magazine article: Consumer society. "There is enough on earth for everybody’s need, but not for everyone’s greed." (Ghandi) Read article

magazine article: IKEA. "IKEA shops are very popular everywhere in the world, and they are made to serve very large numbers of people." Read article

word game: Shopping reading puzzle. Read the text and work out what Rebecca bought (and didn't buy) when she went shopping. Play game

game: Trolley dash. You have sixty seconds to collect everything on your shopping list. Finish in time and move to the next level. Play game

poem: Online Auction In this funny poem by Peter Wyllie we find out about a man's experience putting in a bid for something on e-Bay. Read poem

story: A Perfectly Fair Deal. Hobbes-Smith collects antique musical instruments. At a music festival in Italy, he sees a valuable violin which he wants to add to his collection. Is the owner prepared to sell it? Read this story and find out. Read story

cartoon: "Do you like shopping on the Internet?" "No! ... " See cartoon

trivia: Quotes: "In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy." (Ivan Illich) See more consumer society trivia

science: cubed. Touchy feely finger: An artificial finger puts engineering designers in touch with our feelings. Read story

links: Wikipedia: consumerism See more links

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