Feed by M.T
Anderson is quite the book. It makes me disgusted with technology nearly.
Anderson tells the story from a first person point of view of a young teenage
boy in a futuristic society. The majority of people have this type of microchip
in their head that is the equivalent to a super smart google machine running that
can understand your patterns of behavior and make suggestions. This boy meets a
teenage girl named, Violet and they begin a courtship of sorts. I feel as
though every character that has been presented, with the exception of Violet,
is the same. They all speak in simplistic terms with an overuse of the word “like”.
They are completely dependent upon the interactions of their feed to keep them
sane. There is one scene where Titus and Violet go to a party and it is described
as people looking off, blank stares, empty thoughts. Looking at pictures that
flash by in their heads. Really none of the people that are present are
actually present. There may be an attempt at socialization but everything they
do is centered around the feed.
How eerie this is. People today are glued to their phones.
We look at them as soon as we wake up, check them multiple times a day. We go
to work or school and are on technology all day. We go home at night and are
met with the TV, tablets, and more cell phone time. We have Xbox and PlayStation
and now virtual reality; technology that you nearly live. Before we even say goodnight,
we are already using our phone to awake us for the next day. How many goods,
services, ideas etc. are we presented with on a daily basis? We are submerged in media sensory from the moment we wake up to the moment out head hits the
pillow. How driven is our life by the technologies we created to aid in
progression? How hindered is our life by the technologies
we created to aid progression?
I feel the same way. My favorite part so far was when the feed go disconnected because they actually felt real things. They're like drug addicts, just to the feed.
ReplyDeleteYep. They're barely human. They're cogs in the machine
DeleteI agree, our world is completely driven by technology. I feel like this book shows you what can happen to people when the technology becomes too much.
ReplyDeleteGood points about all the technology we are addicted to these days. How many people do you bump into because one or both of you are staring at your phone, not "present?"
ReplyDeleteI agree on mainly all your points. I definitely agree on how our technology is advance (may not be as advanced as theirs in the book) but we do have this addiction to it.
ReplyDeleteI thought the same thing with cell phones and technology. There are many people who are addicted to technology today just like those in The Feed.
ReplyDeleteThis book does make it seem as if all people are robots, and even today it could be looked at as that. Imagine someone in the 1950's wrote a book about people glued to smart phones, it would be the equivalent to us reading feed.
ReplyDeleteErrr.. but minus all the weird lesions right?
DeleteWell I'm not sure, because when their feeds get turned off they say that he feels empty. I think the more you're influenced by what you see on TV and on social media the less of yourself you become because you're now living in this social construct that you have to follow. They're never able to turn of their feeds and just think clearly for themselves, The feed is pretty much thinking for them.
DeleteAgreed. Society is too reliant on technology they then become too reliant on the corporations. This is why capitalism must be halted.
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