Having read this book last year for YA Lit, I have to admit that I didn't love it, although I thought it was interesting. However, this book has stood the test of time for me. I still think about it because of my increasing reliance on feeds and the irritating need I have to feel connected all the time.
Could events like this actually happen? I actually think anything is possible. So many people said the things we have today could never happen, so I'm not one to say never. But even if I don't really think we can implant a chip into our brains, I do think our reliance to various feeds can certainly increase. The question is whether or not we are strong enough to know when to shut down and whether or not we continue to question everything we are being fed. You see the emergence of Crackberries (my husband among them) and people who believe everything they read online to be the gospel truth. So even if I don't think the problems in the book may come about in the exact way described, I do think the problems created by technology are real nonetheless.
Would I want a feed? No. Don't get me wrong, I love technology. It makes my life richer, connecting me to friends and family and keeping me informed and educated, and allows me to accomplish more in less time. The convenience of a feed would be awesome. But I need silence, escape and peace every so often. I need to talk a walk, play with my kids, and have time for quiet reflection. I wouldn't give that up for a feed.
Monday, February 11, 2008
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The feed is an interesting concept. We got more and more technology-dependent every day. It makes you wonder if a time will come when silence will be a quaint concept, along with books with pages. People can adapt to almost anything. In Olver Sacks' Musicophilia, he talked with people who had music, actual music, paying in their heads all the time, and one of the things he discovered was that they all found a way to cope with the "noise" in their heads. It seems that people would do the same thing with a feed, learn to work around it...except the music in people's heads is self-generated, the feed would have to be generated from somewhere...and that's what's really scary.
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