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T Anderson’s ​ Feed​is a book about two teeangers set one hundred years into the
future with a new technological brain implant called the feed. This book tells how a
group of teens use the feed for everyday things and how one girl is not for the feed,
but who is against it. Titus and his friends use the feed for everything including
reading, thinking and even talking to each other and with this we learn about
miscommunication and the failure to experience things as human rather than just a
technology device. Likewise, the text explores the failed duties of Titus and his friends
face because of the feed allowing them to basically do everything on the feed.
Technology, in the modern world, has corrupted the idea of ‘humanity.”
Feed​
​ ’s theme of the benefits and dangers of technology depicts how technology
defaces the duties that humans have. In the text it states, “That’s one of the great
things about the feed-that you can be supersmart without ever working.” (p. 47) This
evidence shows that people automatically have the capacity of withholding knowledge
without experiencing certain situations. In the story, it says that Titus and his friends
all use their feeds to think and to read and this causing people to lose knowledge
when they think they are actually gaining it because their reliance for the feed
destroys humanity’s natural way of living and understanding.
Feed​
​ ’s theme of the benefits and dangers of technology also depicts the failed
responsibilities that humans owe to one another. In the text it states, “I missed the
feed...Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were outside
the body.” (p.47) This evidence shows that once Titus has experienced little time
without the feed, he already missed it and couldn't imagine how people lived before
the feed came out. In the story, it says that people would ‘chat’ with each other when
they were standing right in front of each other not giving each other the human
experience of actually talking and looking eye to eye with one another and without
these responsibilities of actually giving people time , people may lose the ability to
socially interact with each other.
While many agree that technology corruptes the idea of “humanity”, other may
argue that technology improves humanity because it brings people together by
sharing their memories with each other and giving people the ability to communicate
with loved ones all over the world. The problem with this logic, though, is that it gives
the impression that people are capable of only knowing peace when it comes to
having this much power in technology. Although, technology has helped the human
race discover new frontiers of the modern world, technology’s history of allowing the
human race to fail their duties to one another. It would be naive for people to think
that technology does not corrupt people’s duties to one another just because they see
technology as a way to only express the goodness that people have to give. Many
things happen that technology allows us to do taking away our humanity within us. For
example, cyberbullying kills thousands of victims each year. With just one click of the
button, people hide themselves from the truth that this is wrong, these perpetrators
know that this is wrongdoing so they hide. While many may try to argue that this is
only one scenario that happens with technology many occur too like always being own
your phone, in most cases are teeangers, causes people to remove themselves from
reality limiting people’s social skills to properly interact with other.
As humans, we own the responsibility of interacting with each other, connect to the
real world, and not destroy the lives of the many people around us with one hit of the
‘enter’ button. Technology fails the chance that humanity has at improving itself giving
us too much power to destroy our humanity. People with power have never made
made the right decisions. With technology still advancing, people will find more ways
to hurt other people, disconnect from reality, and stop taking a look around us
realizing what we already have.