Anderson completes his fictional take on the future but I couldn’t, or maybe didn’t, appreciate the heavy handed approach to this cautionary tale. Of course, as mentioned in a previous post, I can understand how kids are becoming more and more creatures of technology, alienated and socially inept outside of their online worlds. That said, I think that today we are still far from the cruel world of Feed, though I wonder if the technology were available today, how many would adopt the technology into their lives and how many would revolt against it? A civil war of technology.
As for the society depicted in the novel—I think humans would become extinct before it got to this level. Darwin would rear his head and the frail nature of the humans of Feed would have been their undoing. Perhaps this is what the lesions are indicative of—a devolution of humans as bitstreams take over. Sort of reminds me of the world of “The Terminator”, where humans are just in the way of technology.
By the way, I “read” this entire novel via the technology of my iPod, where I was tortured by lame dialog, futuristic commercials and the noise of The Feed. I took frequent breaks and cleansed my aural palate with Coltrane—Blue Train, 1957. Oh yeah.
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