If in our society we were to have feeds, I believe that the one created for me would have a lot of commercials for music, clothes, and books, and also a lot of news about politics and current events. Since they are able to purchase right from their feeds, I would most likely be in huge debt, and also want to buy even more because of the convenience. I imagine that my feed would include something similar to iTunes and the app Shazam combined, but in my brain. I would be able to find out what a song was as it was playing, and buy and download it right away. There would also probably be an iPod built into my feed. There would be some kind of Kindle-esque creation in my feed, and definitely some sort of television/DVR. Since I am very interested in politics, I would receive current event updates in my feed and various news channels and newspapers.
Although many people feel that the feed controls way too much of people's brains and gives corporations too much control, I believe that there are positives to having a feed. To be completely honest, and I am not proud of saying this, I would probably get a feed solely for the reason that "everyone else is getting them". Lame, I know, but I feel that if everyone else around me had this new technology that "totally changed their lives", I would want to know what they were talking about. Also, the feed does have some things that are good. For example, having education that is centered around your needs and what you are interested in is not a bad thing; I know that I could have lived a very happy, successful life without ever having to take a physics course. Furthermore, the feed allows people to stay updated with what is going on in the world and be informed. Considering majority of people in America have zero idea about what is going on in politics, maybe having the news sent to them wouldn't be a bad thing.
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