M. T Anderson Feed Analysis

People need to stop being used by their technology and start using it for themselves once again. Without the proper use of technology in our past, it is likely that we would have reached the earth’s carrying capacity by now. Without technological advancements in agriculture and food production, we would be left with not nearly enough food on earth to support all 7.125 billion of us. Though, most people probably wouldn’t rank the steel plow of greater technological importance than the iPhone. This is because an iPhone, or a computer, does have a very immense capability to help people, if used correctly. The internet, for example, can be a way to access a vast amount of information from all over the world, from the beginning of written history until now. The issue is that a greater portion of the internet is dedicated to porn, funny cat videos, and advertisements that constantly lead you to a new “.com”, to buy into a new product. People need to see past the games that we play as a society, so that they can use technology to their, and everyone else’s, advantage. It is amazing that in ‘Feed’ they can travel to Moon or even Mars on vacation. This technological advancement was taken for granted by Titus and his friends in ‘Feed’, but this ability for space travel carries huge possibilities for discovery. M. T. Anderson must have felt there was going

In Feed, M.T. Anderson, satirize social media advertising as a loss of individualism among society. In the scene, for instance, where they say Coca-Cola a certain amount of times to get a free six-pack after saying coke continuously Titus and his friends ended up going to buy a coca-cola. Anderson scribes both the positive and negative consequences to social media advertising of the novel to encourage modern/ young people to “resist the Feed,” to encourage them to use technology as a tool to improve situations.

In present day society, individuals dedicate their time to social media on the internet and electronics, towards updating statuses, rebloging pictures, favoriting videos, reading up on current events, and staying connected in general. It’s only been 25 years since Tim Burners-Lee invented the world wide web and it’s no secret that it is one of the most progressive and influential invention of our time. Dave Eggers, in his current book The Circle, foretells his version of what can happen with the growth of technology and social media and pushes our current standard of being virtually connected from the main social networks Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Tumblr. In

Have you ever wondered what it is like having a computer in your brain? The book, Feed, by M.T. Anderson, has a unique society, where people have a computer chip implanted in their brain called a feed. Violet has a different view of society. She dislikes her feed. Violet is different from other people because she remembers life without the feed. Also, she realizes the feed is not perfect and holes in the software have incapacitated her to the point where her brain is slowly perishing. Additionally, the feed limites her abilities and imagination. As you can see, Violet has an antipathy for the feed.

After reading Feed my perspective on the future of life has changed intensely. Feed helped me develop an understanding for life such as, letting the technology take over our lives and becoming “lifeless” as some would say. Feed covered many different subjects such as, what it’s like to be a teenager in America and “The nature of consumerism”. M.T. Anderson gave a negative point of view of what’s happening and what is to come in our children's future as technology keeps progressing rapidly. Can the “Feed” be stopped?

Samantha’s tone is informative and contains facts in which young adults are confused with what they should be doing in their 20’s, after watching everyone else’s life through phones. Furthermore, these adults are being pushed to their limits in their young years of becoming an adult and this much pressure can make or break someone. For instance, “This results in shaming those who are doing well because its making us question ourselves at a time when everything around us is up in the air” (Samantha). When social media interferes with anyone’s life, it causes confusion and self-doubt on those

The story “Feed” written by M.T. Anderson takes place in future saying that humans have an internet feed wired straight to their brains. And in this story they talk about a girl named Violet and how she is suffering a malfunction in her brain. And this malfunction lead to a seizure leading her to lose her memories. And there is so much she wants to do and show she is alive now that they fixed malfunction. And now she is scared that she is going to lose the love of her life, Titus.

Feed, by MT Anderson, is set in a future world in which a huge computer network is directly connected to the brains of the citizens by means of an implanted device called the “feed”. The feed is much like our internet we have today, except it is much more distracting since everything is installed into their minds. Although this sounds beneficial towards society and may seem like it can improve the lives of humans, the knowledge given to them directly connected to their brain decreases the intelligence of the people who utilize it.

Society is on the cusp of a social revolution, we are at a point in history where new social realities are being created by technology and those realities mean for the individual and society. We are shifting from personal human interactions to virtual interactions through social media. From Facebook to

M.T. Anderson’s Feed satirizes a dystopian society that is ruled by technology. The people are considered consumers first and humans second. The main characters, Titus and Violet, along with seventy-five percent of the population, have chips implanted into their brains so that they are connected to the Feed, an advanced form of the internet. The company that created the chips, FeedTech, monitors people’s thoughts in order to create consumer profiles on them and send the mental equivalent of pop-up ads. This civilization, while technologically advanced, causes mass devastation to the environment and to the people. However, some of the people, like Titus’s friends, believe that the advantages of the technology outweigh the wreckage of the world, so the destruction goes unnoticed by the population. In the people’s eyes, technology’s importance overshadows the problems that plague the earth. This causes the people to lose their compassion towards their habitat. In the novel, Anderson illustrates how the society has used technology to

Alike the creature in Frankenstein, there is good and bad to all of the advancements. Social Media is the biggest “creature” affecting us today. Today, we have to find a way to turn off our devices, or “run away” from them like Frankenstein’s first response was. The issue is we do not want to run away from the first moment like Victor did. We are intrigued to the point of obsession. The book Feed, perfectly describes where our future is headed. Technology and media in the world are destroying our attention. Anderson’s writing doesn’t include a “turn off mode.” He portrays this world where what we have today (smartphones,) are imbedded into our brain. The story shows many interactions with teenage kids who can no longer truly communicate because they are always scrolling down the “feed” imbedded in their brain. The kids no longer learn, because anything they need to know can be searched on the “feed.” There are clips all throughout the story where I see signs of our generation going toward the direction of Anderson’s writing. A point in the story, Violet and Titus get into an argument. Titus expresses that he doesn’t even want to talk to Violet so they CHAT about their argument. Relationships are going to go to pot if we depend 100% on technology to communicate. There is nothing more important in this world than communication. At the end of the story, Violent is about to die, because the

In today’s society the abuse of technology is apparent. While walking down the street I notice people staring at the screens of their smartphones rather than engaging in conversation what others passing by. To ease the awkward tension of being surrounded by strangers before class begins I see students updating their social media statuses or sending text messages instead of talking to their neighbors sitting beside them. It has become increasingly more difficult to strike up conversations with people because they have become so engrossed in their phones they don’t notice anything but the pixelated images on their tiny screens. One thing that seems to bring our splintered society together is commercialized fiction.

The technological and innovative advancements that young adults have access to today can attest to how vastly times have changed. Presence of the internet and social media has opened doors to life altering opportunities that were thought unattainable. However, there are two sides to every coin. With these possibilities come unrealistic expectations that are forced on the youth of the world inevitably leading to dire outcomes.

Technology has impacted our world to the point of no return. The world is a social media cyclone meaning it’s a hurricane taking over, and it cannot be avoided in anyway. Even if you tried to ignore what is happening in technology, technology would be introduced to you by a friend or a family member no matter what your circumstances are. You could be a, man of the cloth or practicing some type of religion that don’t allow for the use today’s technology at all. In my essay I will use quotes from; “r u online?”: The Evolving Lexicon of Weird Teens by Kris Axtman, Texting by David Crystal and in the beginning Was the Word by Christine Rosen.

Opinion editor for the Easterner, Sam days, put it well when he said, “Society should drive media, not the other way around.” This is important to remember for many reasons, Social media can sometimes control adults and the children of this generation. Many reputable scholars are beginning to see the loss of control on technology in America’s culture today, a cry for real human interaction is starting to be heard from those who can listen.