Becoming The Feed

I thought Feed was a fascinating book, however it wasn’t the plot that I found compelling as much as the setting. Feed is set in a futuristic society, a cautionary tale if you will about where our own society might be heading. In the world of Feed most of the population has a computer chip implanted in their head from a young age, it grows to take over the basic functions of the human brain. You can play games, watch shows, talk to people, it’s like TV the internet and cell phones all rolled into one and you can see it in your head, like you’re there. The environment sucks, so horribly that people live in domes to keep them safe from the radiation that still keeps them from having children naturally. Corporations brainwash people through the feed. People are less intelligent because they don’t have to know things, the feed knows them. People use more primitive language because chat speak has evolved and just become the language. I loved this book because it is a window into the apocalypse that might become our future, not because robots take over or zombies attack but because technology will allow a select few to rule us all while making us totally ok with it. The technology to do these things is coming and I ask you if an apocalypse like the feed truly occurs what would you do? For me it would mean becoming a hermit, or something of the like, hiding from society because I couldn’t be a part of one where everyone follows blindly and silently. Let voice speak out let the human mind rise to its potential of greatness; don’t take over its functions with a machine.  It would be a shame, a shame that I see as possible in the near future.