Analysis Of Feed By M. T. Anderson

Who doesn’t check their phone constantly throughout the day? What if your phone was a small piece of metal in your head? In this story it is, a chip called the “feed” is inserted into everyone’s head. On the feed people can shop, texted, watch movies, get news, and best of all make personal choices for the users. In Feed by M.T. Anderson he suggests the role of technology affects the way people communicate with others cause by negative learning opportunities at school, reducing what choices people make, and distracts people.

In the book the schools are trademarked and run by the corporations, that teach less about history and more about consumerism. Violet believes in a real education, where everyone learns about history and things that happened

Most of society believes that learning about the feed in schools is more helpful. Since the corporation owns the School™ and the feed. They can get the people to feel that learning about the feed will better their opportunities in life. Everything they learn at School™ is who to buy stuff and be a better consumer on the feed. In a school in Boston, the administration collects the students phones before school starts and they get them back after school. The results were,“‘They are more engaged in cell phones than being in the present moment,’ ‘I have less problems losing students to their phones, texts, whatever,’ she said”(Elise). Without technology students are able to stay focused in school and have better outlooks on life. Learning about the world and important subjects like math and science will lead to preferable opportunities in life. When learning about the feed, students are controlled and their lives are controlled by corporations. The corporation uses the past to make the new School™ look so much better. People like Titus believe, “no one was going to pay for the public schools anymore and they were all like filled with guns and

In the book, characters receive their own personal decision maker on the feed. Titus claims “The braggest thing about the feed, the thing that made it really big, is that it knows everything you want and hope for, sometimes before you even know what those things are. It can tell you how to get them, and help you make buying decisions that are hard”(Anderson). Titus and his friends never have to make their own decisions, they are made for them by the corporation. Moreover, Titus and the others believe that the corporation knows them so well they are able to know what they are thinking. The truth is that the corporation makes decisions that they want people to make, whether it is to buy a new tv or go to a certain school. The corporations are able to determine what advertisements each person will have. Similarly, media serves the same purpose today. Harvard researchers found “marketers have been able to gain unprecedented insight into consumers and serve up solutions tailored to their individual needs” (John). Everything people search can be seen and used by marketers to customizes advertisements. Certainly, M.T. Anderson’s message about technology becoming too powerful is proven by the advertisements that are custom to people. Overall, when people see an advertisement on something that they are interested in, they are more likely to buy it, as shown in the