Friday, October 16, 2009
HW 12
I feel that the book, The Feed, does in many ways accurately protray the lifestyle that kids have nowadays. The way they talk, overusing the word "like," the way they dress thinking that anything new woud be the new cool, even the way they act is something we do as kids. Then comes the network, called the Feed, which is basically a computer in your brain. You're ableto stay on the network 24/7 with endless updates and all it comes with all the perks a computer would have such as orderng online, chating without using your mouth anywhere and anytime, watch videos and download music instantly; the most convient and advance technology during their time. The only different with theirs is that we don't have the network installed into our brain and it isn't as convient as theirs. Still, we do spent as much time as possible on the network then we should at all, some of us are on portable technologies that can do things the feed can, such as chat with people, visit sites on the internet, etc. The way I feel, I believe that the people in Feed is our children's, children's, children's, children's. I feel that the Feed is that that far into the future seeing how technology is rapidly evolving as we speak. I think that some of us mght live lone enough to see some kind of prototype because the idea of the Feed has come up to the government. I saw a documentary about a year ago that the government wanted to implant a chip into our heads for security purposes, and some families were wanted to participate as test subjects. I don't know what exactly happen to the family or if they even continue the idea of the chip, but it's scary how realistic this book might be. Also when people said that they would never want the feed in their heads, I honestly think that many of they people were lying. Maybe they were skeptical about the feed and what it can do because most of them are on the internet almost 24/7, not much different then the time people in Feed spend on it. So yes, this book does accurately reflects our generations and possible our kids are going to act more like Titus and his friends then we will, and their kids will act more like TItus then they will and so on and on and on.
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Richard,
ReplyDeleteI read all the post from 10 – 14, and I find #12 as one of my favorite throughout all of them. Not only that I agreed to most of your arguments in this post, I also felt your connection is interesting. Great work!
Based on my understand of your blog post, I think you first draw the parallels between feed and our own digital teenage life such as trying to be cool, overusing the word “like”, chatting without using your moth…etc. Then you also point out the difference between them was that in feed, the chip is being installed into them while we are just using it obsessively. Lastly, you connect to the real world, and say how this could actually happen.
Overall, I agreed with what you said about similar aspects of our lives compared to Feed’s. It is true that we used the word “like” a lot especially from the teenager’s voice. It is seem as more like a tragedy in a way that we do not know how to describe things. Although the word “like” sometimes is very unnecessary while we are speaking, people tempt to use it as a habit. Whether it is a good sign or not, or does it really matter as long as people understand, I do not really know. But I find the word “like” very annoyed when people used it more than 3 times when they are speaking. (By the way, this is a very good point!)
Before commenting on what you can improve on this post, I just want to say it will be better if you can leave a space between paragraphs, or break it into paragraphs, so it is readable. Now, here comes to the comment based on post. I find the connection that you brought up are very interesting, and I think you should definitely expand on them and probably quote some of the lines from the documents will make the connection more strong. Additionally, when you said most people are lying and they actually do want the feed to be installed, I find this very interesting also. I guess this is another good point that you can expand on such as what makes you think that way, and how will the chip really impact us if it was being installed. Last, I can see that you agree with what the feed said, and I wonder if you can think of any alternative point of view.
When you mentioned how scary that the book could be realistic, it really did make me reconsider my life. It also makes me thought about realistic and unrealistic as what we have discussed in class today. I often look at unrealistic depending on my situation and perceptions, but never consider something that I never seen could actually be considered realistic. I think this is very helpful in a way that draws a clearer line between realistic and unrealistic.
Thanks for the great post with insights. I am looking forward to see more insights from your post later on in your future posts.
Bao Lin