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I went into reading Feed with the exact intentions I have every time I try reading a science fiction text: ugh. "Ugh" is exactly how I felt while trudging through this novel. I did, however find a few points in the text of interest personally. The language that the characters used caught my attention early on in the text. Written in the early 2000s about the future, words like "meg" were used in almost every paragraph of the text. Anderson's idea of futuristic talk in the text was not exact, but is pretty close to how speech is changing, even today. We are shortening words to shorten conversation even over ten years after this book was written. The characters in this text have shortened conversations to become a mere thought that travels through their Feed. Another topic of interest in this text was how reliable these kids were to the technology in their mind. On page ___ when the kids are in the hospital after being hacked, they are bored out of their minds and hardly able to create conversation with their peers. This is extremely relevant today, where kids in this generation are constantly glued to their phones and without it, they are lost and anxious and even continuously check their phone in the event that something might pop up.

Although I was not a fan of the text, I do like the central message behind it... that technology is not the center of our universe. This generation is beginning to lose things that prior generations couldn't live without, like being outdoors and going actual places, because of technology making things extremely more accessible to where people don't even need to leave their houses anymore.

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