Feed By M. T. Anderson Analysis
Final Essay: Feed by M.T Anderson
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."- Sydney J. Harris. Is it possible that one day everyone 's humanly functions of thought and critical thinking will completely vanish to point that we are no longer considered human? Will we begin to think robotically, just like computers or machines that have answers to everything but contain no detailed content within those answers? In Feed by M.T
Anderson, the author has created a vision of our future. A future where the internet is connected directly into the consumer’s brain. A future in which their thoughts are supplemented by advertisements and implemented to see technology as the base …show more content…
Today, we have turned...this function to the computer that tells us when we have a meeting...an email message or any other electronic communications...The alarm clock—a buzz, a chime, a radio program—wakes us up in the morning. Our devices essentially control our actions, or at least help us to handle all of the things we are supposed to do during our hectic days.” (Valkenburg)We would be unable to complete our daily tasks if it weren 't for technology, that including our phones, computers, the internet etc. Most of us are unable to wake up if weren 't for the alarm that tells you to do so, we are so dependent on it that we can 't even go a day without checking our phone to check the time. These simple tasks without technology may in
some cases seem impossible for us to do. Are they impossible or have we just trained our brain to think it’s impossible?
In the world of feed people have gained too much trust on the corporations that run the feed, and anyone who is involved with it. Their dependency on technology has made them contain invalid trust towards these groups. Without realization they are trusting those who …show more content…
In conclusion, the future society described in this novel explains how people over time have become more and more manipulated by consumerism and technology. In Feed, the feed is what helps and creates this sort of manipulation to an extent in which people are unable to think freely and on their own. This satirical novel written by M.T Anderson helps explain how people of today have become more obsessed with technology to the point that we have become the slaves of consumerism. He bases the story line mostly on teenagers rather than adults, because unlike adults, the new generations that have been born to this new world of technology, don 't question or doubt the effects technology has had on society. They learn to accept it as a part of life. Anderson wrote this novel to expose the many effects that technology is giving to society; he exposed reality hoping that in our future reality it will not be like the world of feed.
Bibliography
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Gillespie, Richard, and David Schmittlein. "Technology Is Changing the Advertising
Business-Knowledge@Wharton." KnowledgeWharton Technology Is Changing the
Advertising Business Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 May 2014.
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."- Sydney J. Harris. Is it possible that one day everyone 's humanly functions of thought and critical thinking will completely vanish to point that we are no longer considered human? Will we begin to think robotically, just like computers or machines that have answers to everything but contain no detailed content within those answers? In Feed by M.T
Anderson, the author has created a vision of our future. A future where the internet is connected directly into the consumer’s brain. A future in which their thoughts are supplemented by advertisements and implemented to see technology as the base …show more content…
Today, we have turned...this function to the computer that tells us when we have a meeting...an email message or any other electronic communications...The alarm clock—a buzz, a chime, a radio program—wakes us up in the morning. Our devices essentially control our actions, or at least help us to handle all of the things we are supposed to do during our hectic days.” (Valkenburg)We would be unable to complete our daily tasks if it weren 't for technology, that including our phones, computers, the internet etc. Most of us are unable to wake up if weren 't for the alarm that tells you to do so, we are so dependent on it that we can 't even go a day without checking our phone to check the time. These simple tasks without technology may in
some cases seem impossible for us to do. Are they impossible or have we just trained our brain to think it’s impossible?
In the world of feed people have gained too much trust on the corporations that run the feed, and anyone who is involved with it. Their dependency on technology has made them contain invalid trust towards these groups. Without realization they are trusting those who …show more content…
In conclusion, the future society described in this novel explains how people over time have become more and more manipulated by consumerism and technology. In Feed, the feed is what helps and creates this sort of manipulation to an extent in which people are unable to think freely and on their own. This satirical novel written by M.T Anderson helps explain how people of today have become more obsessed with technology to the point that we have become the slaves of consumerism. He bases the story line mostly on teenagers rather than adults, because unlike adults, the new generations that have been born to this new world of technology, don 't question or doubt the effects technology has had on society. They learn to accept it as a part of life. Anderson wrote this novel to expose the many effects that technology is giving to society; he exposed reality hoping that in our future reality it will not be like the world of feed.
Bibliography
-
Gillespie, Richard, and David Schmittlein. "Technology Is Changing the Advertising
Business-Knowledge@Wharton." KnowledgeWharton Technology Is Changing the
Advertising Business Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 May 2014.