Feed, A Futuristic Novel
Feed, a futuristic novel by M.T. Anderson, left me feeling disturbed about the faults in perfection.
In a society completely ruled by technology, most of the country has a chip implanted in their
brain since birth that acts as a phone, computer, television, and more, which known as the feed.
The feed allows people to chat using just their connected brains, watch television programs, play
games, order goods, and research any topic. From the start, I recognized that this was a scary
concept, because it meant that website owners and product producers had access to one s
thoughts, preferences, and personality. What made this book so eerie was that I could experience
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Because of the feed, with everyone having access to whatever they please already in their brain,
everyone is smart, and no one has to work for it. There is mass danger in this concept. If
everyone is smart, no one is smart, because no one knows more than anyone else, and no one
stands out. It s like if you were to highlight everything in an article. If you did that, nothing would
be important anymore. This is what the feed does. It is run by companies who search everyone s
brains, and create products that will appeal to everyone. In order to do that, the companies need to
make a very simple product everyone can enjoy, slowly deteriorating difference, and slowly
making everyone simpler people. In light of what the novel stresses: that making things too easy for
humans will ruin the meaning for their existence, the author creates a character essential to get this
point across. Violet, Titus girlfriend, was different from Titus and his friends. She grew up with less
money than them, and with parents against the feed from the start. However, she eventually got the
feed, only to run into problems when a hacker damages it permanently. Violet, unlike Titus,
understands that companies running the feed were slowly abusing their power to create products
they know will have mass appeal. Violet resists this, trying to create a personality profile that
cannot fit in with the norms of the feed. Later, when Violet s feed, which has latched on
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