Feed
by M. T. Anderson · first published 2002
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For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon—a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Nationa
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Straight out of M.T. Anderson's Feed. Have you read it? Read it! (Or listen to it, there's a really great audio book of it)
on “Google won’t be able to resist listening in on your conversations” ↗If this paragraph made you giggle, give "Feed" by MT Anderson a read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_(Anderson_novel)
on “How to get root access to your Sleep Number bed” ↗If you want to read a really scary prescient fiction book in this vein, check out Feed by M.T. Anderson. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_(Anderson_novel) Just chilling.
on “Quiet” ↗…concerned about a future where we spend our time jacked into an AI-generated universe that is almost -- but not quite -- consistent and sensical. A dreamscape that becomes a nightmare. Recommended new book: "Feed", by M.T. Anderson. That's the plot. It's not like "the Matrix". It's way too much like Facebook.
on “Ask HN: ChatGPT et al. and NPCs” ↗This is the same thing I thought. This ad brought immediately to mind the book "Feed" by MT Anderson.
on “Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses” ↗I'm not sure I agree with you but your dystopian vision is certainly vivid and reminds me of the novel Feed by M. T. Anderson [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_%28Anderson_novel%29.
on “Google Glass” ↗My to-read shelve on Goodreads has 620 books on it, but top of my list are: - Feed by M.T. Anderson - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff - Equality by Edward Bellamy
on “Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?” ↗…Hopkins Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser The Color Purple by Alice Walker Feed by M.T. Anderson Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou I'm a bit surprised that Ulysses by James Joyce…
on “Iowa using AI to automatically scan and ban books” ↗"Feed (2002) is a young adult dystopian novel of the cyberpunk subgenre written by M. T. Anderson. The novel focuses on issues such as corporate power, consumerism, information technology, data mining, and…
on “Ask HN: Can you think of a sci-fi novel that feels like ChatGPT now?” ↗