![]() ![]() ![]() The feed allows people: to mentally access vast digital databases (individually called "sites") to experience shareable virtual-reality phenomena (including entertainment programs, music, and even others' memories) to continually interact with intrusive corporations in a personal preference-based way and to communicate telepathically on closed channels with others who also have feeds (a feature called m-chatting). The novel portrays a near-future in which the feednet, a huge computer network (apparently an advanced form of the Internet), is directly connected to the brains of about 73% of American citizens by an implanted device called a feed. ![]() From the first-person perspective of a teenaged boy, the book takes place in a near-futuristic American culture completely dominated by advertising and corporate exploitation, corresponding to the enormous popularity of internetworking brain implants called feeds. Anderson, focusing on issues such as corporate power, consumerism, information technology, data mining, and environmental decay, with a sometimes sardonic, sometimes somber tone. ![]() Feed (2002) is a cyberpunk, dystopian, young-adult novel by M. ![]()
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