Below: Links to the Ted Talks we watched in class: Jason Sosa on "The Coming Era of Transhumanism" and Amber Case, "We Are All Cyborgs Now." The questions for Feed are below...
Answer TWO of the following:
Q1: What happens to Violet at the party that makes her
exclaim, “Look at us! You don’t have the feed! You are feed! You’re feed!
You’re being eaten!” (202). Though Titus blames this on her disease, what might
Violet realize about the reality of their “dream” existence?
Q2: Does Titus’ relationship with Violet make him grow as a
person? Is he becoming more and more independent of the Feed? Or is he too
entangled with the Feed to ever truly change? Consider the conversation when he
tells her, “It feels...it sometimes feels like you’re watching us, instead of
being us” (168).
Q3: The Ted Talk we watched last Thursday (see the link above) suggested that technology grows exponentially smaller and
faster, becoming more and more part of our lives. At a certain point, have we
gone too far to turn back? How might these chapters of Feed suggest that
going too far too fast makes it impossible to change direction?
Q4: Violet makes a big existential observation toward the
end of our reading: “Everything I think of when I think of really living,
living to the full—all my ideas are just the opening credits of sitcom. See
what I mean? My idea of life, it’s what happens when they’re rolling the
credits” (217). Do all of our ideas of living and identity come from shows and
movies and books? Is it possible to ever have a truly original, unique
identity? In the end, are we all products of the “Feed” whether we like it or
not?
Q2. Titus' relationship with Violet is definitely strange. Some might say he is to stubborn or dependent on the feed to ever truly change, but I think he slowly is realizing what he can do on his own. He begins using metaphors and talking on his own without the chat. He defends and takes care of Violet in front of his best friends. Although this is a slow changing process, I think Titus will someday become much less dependent of the feed.
ReplyDeleteQ3. The one thing that sticks out to me most is how these kids go to school. Their only version of school is the small time of learning how to better use the feed. They have all become so accustomed to the feed that they hardly know how to learn new information. The feed allows them to access information in the matter of seconds, so why would they want to go back to studying and attending school for 8 hours a day?
Cameron Corbin
ReplyDeleteQ3:I don't believe that we have ever gone to far to turn back for the simple reason that the technology we create can always fail us. At any moment, our versions of the feed can shut down and we will essentially be brought back on our knees to the stone age. Even though at times it may seem that tech. like the feed has taken over our lives, basic human instinct will always remain intact; always leaving a small possibility that we could go back to what we came from.
Q4: No, I do not believe it is possible to have a unique individual identity unless someone has grown up in complete isolation from any forms of socialization. Everything we see influences the way we act out whether we like it our not. We are in a sense human sponges when it comes to absorbing information. We are products of the "Feed" when it comes down to it.
Q2. I think Titus is slowly but surely making progress. He's aware of how much the feed has overcome him but he's also aware that he can do tasks on his own it's a matter of fact if he wants to or not, due to that titus is capable of Change and being independent on his human traits.
ReplyDeleteQ3. I don't think it's that we came to far to turn back it's the matter of fact as to why turn back if we are making progress. If we are becoming stronger and smarter why change it, it's all beneficial in the long run
Q3: Over the last decade we have advanced so quickly in technology that ten years ago, the world is almost unrecognizable to us. Most people cannot imagine what it is like now to live without a cell phone, or internet. We have grown so accustomed to technology that in todays’ standards living without it would potentially cause chaos. Going back in time would make it so much harder for us to live today, because we have all gone so long without having to go without our technology.
ReplyDeleteQ4: In a very scary way we are all the product of the Feed. Not very many people are original. You may see someone with their hair in dreads, with a bandana, a tie-dye shirt, with sandals on and thing “Wow, they are so hipster, what an original person”. But in reality, they got their style from someone else, and so on and so forth. No one we know is truly an original, they may have seen one thing from a celebrity, and another thing from a friend or family member. A lot of the times we even let other people tell us what we should wear. We let our friends tell us what they think look good on us, or we let our families tell us what we should or should not wear. Even tradition decides what we wear on some occasions, like weddings or interviews.
Q2: I think Titus' relationship with Violet has changed since they've meet. Titus is starting to use metaphors more then the rest of his friends, and is starting to understand them without the feed helping him. He is learning how to talk to someone verbally instead of through the feed. Their relationship has helped him realize that the feed has taken over everything.
ReplyDeleteQ3: We've use technology in our day to day lives. We've made new inventions in technology that some people can't live without because it's apart of who they are. If that technology wasn't invented then some if not all of us wouldn't be able to live. Its hard for us to imagine going back in time where the technology we have today wouldn't exists. For us it would end in chaos or total destruction of towns, because we are so dependent on our technology.
Bailey Copeland
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