Feed (Free Post)

No, I'm not talking about how hungry I am or what kind of diet I'm on... Feed is a book (a damn good book) that I read a few years ago. It's a Young Adult book that takes place in the future. There are flying cars and parties on the Moon. Most of civilization at this point is living over the world- that is, communities and houses are floating above the actual Earth. People have chips installed in their brain- usually at birth to be on the safe side- that hooks into their minds and makes the internet live in their heads. This is called the Feed (because it's feeding these people media and stuff). The Feed tells people where to buy the latest clothes, where the hot spots for partying are on Mars, and what the latest, most popular songs are. The Feed also tells them what certain words mean and, if they ever actually need to know, what happened in certain periods of history. Once they have the Feed, people basically don't need to do anything but move, eat, and sleep. They can even chat through their minds- hearing each other's voices without talking. They can go to their favorite websites, watch their favorite television shows, and read their favorite books- if they even know what a book is. The Feed, which may seem like a wonderful thing to the people that have them, is actually controlling their lives. But down on the real soil, people are dying. Down where the population is sparse, there's a horrible disease no one knows about, and the people who go without Feeds are dying at skyrocketing numbers. And not only that, the people living above that have Feeds are getting these grotesque lesions, which are like large wounds on the skin that leak blood and puss. To the people with Feeds, these are as normal as pimples.

In this horrible futuristic world, we find the main character Titus. He's a normal teenage boy, with normal friends and a normal life. But he meets a girl named Violet who pays attention to what's going on around her. She opens her eyes once in a while. She knows what's wrong and what's right. She's ready to fight the Feed.

But this story won't end well. Feed is a sad story with a sad ending, but I, personally, think that everyone should read it. If everyone in the world read Feed, I truly think that our planet would be a better place because more people would stop and think about exactly what technology could do to us. Just sayin'.