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Summary Of Feed By M. T. Anderson

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“Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity” (Jacques Ellul). Feed, by M.T. Anderson takes place in a dystopian future where this is a very evident problem. In this future society, technology is everywhere. People can drive upcars hundreds of miles, going to the moon takes less than a day, and school and clouds are trademarked. Titus and his friends along with most of the people in the world all had a machine called the feed implanted directly in their brain when they were born. The feed allows them to communicate effortlessly and be directly advertised to by corporations. The novel reinforces …show more content…

In the future, you would think that advanced technology would improve the healthcare system and everyone would be able to receive help, but this was not the case for Violet. After her feed is hacked, her body begins to break down. “They sent a message to FeedTech explaining what happened. It was all about how she had lost her memory, and how sometimes she couldn’t move parts of her, and about how she had gone completely fugue-state” ( 218). FeedTech refuses to make repairs to Violet’s feed simply because her feeds warranty had expired. When her dad tries to get big corporations to help pay, they won't help because Violet doesn’t buy enough of their products and therefore isn't a “reliable investment” for them ( 247). This shows that technology has affected society in such a way that it no longer values people's lives. Instead, society only values a person based on how much that person buys. The society in Feed also doesn’t value the past. With technology being everywhere in the world of Feed, nobody seems to value anything else. When Titus lost his feed and was in the hospital, the only thing he has to look at is a painting. “One of the walls had a painting of a boat on it. The boat was on a pond or maybe a lake. I couldn’t find anything interesting about that picture at all. There was nothing that was about to happen or had just happened” (45). Titus doesn’t find any value in a painting that someone made because they

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