Hw 12 - Feed A

In class my group was able to make many parallels to feed and the environment we live in today. There are many similarities between the two. I feel like in the book they make everything seem very exaggerated and bad. I mean yes sometimes we do over use electronics, but it’s not like we all use it 24/7. In feed if you have a feed installed then you are using it all day all night. In fact you can have your dreams in your feed. In the actual world we live in today it’s not like that. We can stay up all night using the technology surrounding us, but we are not able to have dreams in them. We do not have people automatically popping up and talking to us if we have a problem. If you have the feed they seem to automatically come to you. In the world today you have to go to them and ask for help. The people talking automatically on the feeds were usually people trying to sell items, or helping you if you have any technical problems. I guess this connects to ads that we come across when we are online. They are always there making us buy items that we may not even need.


One connection my group talked about between feed and our modern world would be getting plastic surgery and the lesions that they were constantly getting. While reading the book we thought that having a lesion was really disgusting, and we thought why would anyone ever want to do that to themselves? In the book, it was usually the girls getting lesions so that they can show them off to the boys. It somehow made them seem sexy or something. It’s the same thing with plastic surgery, or any type of unnecessary surgery like liposuction. If you think about it you are getting other people to cut you open and fix the way you look so you can look more “attractive”. The real question here is what is attractive to you? Some may say that you are attractive if you are looking a certain way, some may say the opposite. Getting surgery done to make yourself look better is just like getting lesions. It is not necessary at all.


Another comparison between the real world and feed is getting the feed in their world and getting the latest products in our world today. This is something we also discussed in our group conversation. In the book if you had the feed than you were considered to have a very high standard and you were rich because getting the feed was not something cheap. In the world we live in we buy the latest products to keep our standards up, and they are not that cheap either. For example the I pod, there are many types out there but what counts is which one you have. Do you have the latest one out there or do you have the old one. Now a days it seems like you are known by which I pod you have or what type of technology you use. If you have the old one than one may think of you differently compared to if you were to have the latest I pod, one that is fresh on the market. These days you are known for your technology. For example the Mac commercials, they show that if you have a PC you are a nerd and have a complicated life, and if you own a Mac then you are cool and an easy going person. It’s very surprising how technology can control so many things in our life, just like it does in the world of feed.