Sunday, September 28, 2008

To Feed or not to Feed....

Is that the question? Are we close to the kinds of technologies described in M.T. Anderson's FEED? Computers inside out bodies? Well, people can now have devices embedded under their skin for medical reasons/applications now, but we are talking about have an actual operating system inside us. I dont know if thats possible, but it is certainly something to be scared of and decry. Look around. See that dude texting while he's driving? How about that girl over there having a breakdown because she lost her cell phone? That kid on the bench is cursing because his computer's pop up blocker isnt blocking pop ups. This woman with the shell shocked expression was just fired by instant message. We are already being fed. Everytime Amazon tracks our purchases, or Google narrows our search down, every time we make an online purchase, every grocery store/department store we use bonus cards with, we are already being tracked. Our tendencies, tastes, proclivities, buying habits, its all out there, on record. To Feed or not to Feed? People, we are already being fed.

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