From: Rotem Moscovich <mollybdenim>
Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 17:10:47 -0700 (PDT)

Many of the books people have posted about have revealed something about our past or our present as humans. Another way of shedding light on the present day comes from science fiction, which in some ways acts as a cautionary tale: Look at what could happen. Feed, by M.T. Anderson is one such book, taking just a small step forward from the way people interface with the internet now and showing its readers life with the feed (imagine the internet and your mind integrated into one being so that one cannot live without the other). Though of course it is an extreme example right now, Anderson is spot on when it comes to how the media and internet link inextricably with commercialism and extreme capitalism to spell disaster for humans and earth. Reading it, I was reminded of a week when I didn't have internet at my apartment and how lonely and disconnected I felt from the world. I felt impaired: I couldn't check the weather or movie times or email or instant message. By taking his readers from what they know now to what could so easily happen, he makes the risks real. He makes his readers aware of their world.

~Rotem Moscovich. Simmons College Grad Student


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Received on Sun 01 May 2005 07:10:47 PM CDT