Feed

Anderson, M.T. Feed. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2002.

Audience: Teen/Young Adult

Genre:  Cyber fantasy, Distopian

Topics of Focus: Consumerism, youth culture, human impact on environment

Red Flags: Corperate greed, destroyed environment, political corruption/ inaction.

  

Feed paints an eerie picture of a dystopian future in which the lives of many Americans are completely centered on their “feeds”-- transmitters implanted directly into their brains. The natural environment has become completely inhabitable to humans, forcing them to live in closed-off cities, where everything is artificial. The Internet has evolved into the Feednet, a network that connects the brains of all Feed users, making privacy a thing of the past. People have become nothing more than customers to the mega corporations that control mainstream society. Any semblance of a truly democratic or collective government has been completely undermined by these corporations, and the politicians are no more than puppets who do their best to hide everything that’s going on. 

Annotation by Joe Woods