While I did not particularly enjoy reading Feed, it was an interesting study in possibilities. How close are we to that society? Close but no cigar yet...The idea is there though. The notion of having data constantly updating and feeding to you is a reality - the receiving device just isn't implanted in our head yet. It is not that big of a stretch when you see a trio of kids walking down the street texting each other instead of actually *talking* to each other. And really, the consumerism is already there as well, just not in the same technological framework.
Most striking? That still has to be the inability to write any longer. Again, not that far from reality! My teenage son can barely print anymore much less write in cursive.Those skills are just no longer promoted in school because their reality is most things are turned in electronically.
As an aside, my 6 year old daughter asked me the other day to buy something or another (don't recall...) and I said they were all out. Her easy answer... "just go to dot com and buy it, you can get anything there." I can only imagine the society she will be a grown-up in!
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