![]() ![]() ![]() The lack of personhood is constantly manifested, and in several different ways, throughout the whole of the novel. This is startling because throughout the novel it becomes apparent that the dependence on this new technology leads the characters in the novel to have a lack of personhood, intelligence and true cultural awareness. This makes Feed much more frightening, as many parallels with our world of today become apparent throughout. ![]() ![]() This is the mechanism that is installed into one’s brain (preferably at birth, as the reader learns) that allows for one to immediately look up anything, watch a show, shop, message one another and everything else that people nowadays are used to doing using laptops and cell phones.Īs Anderson makes clear in an essay in the postscript of the book, this novel was not meant as a warning of what the future may hold, but a satire on the world as he saw it when as he was writing the novel. Anderson, depicts a futuristic world where technology is not just all around us anymore, but inside our own heads at all times. ![]()
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