Where in our society can we find similarities to the “feed”?
The feed is basically a whole bunch of modern day devices shoved into one, computer chip I guess, and then I assume they implant it into or onto their brains. One of the first things we see in the book that the feed does is play advertisements in their heads almost like commercials on a t.v. and they seem to be interrupted and cut off only to change to a new one. So maybe it is like how YouTube has a "skip" button for some of their advertisements and they can skip a certain ad and another one will pop up based on what they listen too. And then this brings me to my next point which is Pandora and maybe the ads or set up in a Pandora system and the feed will guess what you like and don't like. Another sign of Pandora is the music that tells him what's new and songs he likes and doesn't like. Next is a chat room that is on the feed that allows them too talk/text each other in some way. I'm not quite sure how it works though because does it just type what you are thinking to it or do you spell it out? Also how are they seeing the chat? Do they hear it or does a little window pop up that shows the text. Another cool feature that I noticed is that the feed would suggest words that you might be able to use in your sentence when you can't think of the right thing to say. So the feed basically has a Siri built into it also which is actually kinda cool and a bit disturbing. Anyway what I conclude about the feed itself is that is basically like having a lap top or cell phone inside your head that allows you to access all these things without the need of a physical object in your hand.
QUESTIONS:
1: Open-Ended : When the narrator sees the girl at the low gravity place he tries to explain why or what he likes about the girl. When he couldn't figure it out the feed suggested that her spine was "supple". What do you think is the out come of this word suggestion? How much of what they say do think is actually their own words?
With this word suggestion I think it will lead to people not really having their own original thoughts anymore and I think it also kinda makes them more lazy and less creative because they don't really need to use their brains as much. Kinda like today and how they say that because we don't do as much today our brains are less developed or something like that.
2: World Connection : There is a lot of slang used in Feed that the narrator and his friends say. What similarities do you see in the slang of today and the slang of the future? (what do you think they mean?)
The similarities that I see are things like unit which is obviously "dude" in the future. But maybe this reflects on how they view themselves as things instead of people (like a unit of measurement). Another is "null" which I have seen it used as "getting high" and also calling something "stupid".....kinda ironic when you think about it.
3: Universal Theme/Core Question : When you first read this book the characters in it seem, to us, to be stupid. Why do you think this is? What do you think the author is trying to say about our generation as well?
I think it's because as technology becomes better and better eventually we have to do less and less. And we don't have to know as much as we did before hand. We get lazy because technology keeps making it easier to do things and as a result we tend to take less responsibility as well.
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