Feed (by MT Anderson) Discussion Questions

1. Feed is set in a future time when most Americans get their news, entertainment, and shopping tips from electronic transmitters implanted into their brains. In what ways are current technologies similar to the feed? How are they different?

2. Titus attends School™ but can barely read. What are students taught there? How would these lessons be useful to students?

3. What is happening in the world outside the feed? Is it, as the old man on the moon insists, a “time of calamity” (page 38)?

4. In Feed, product information flows directly, and unceasingly, to the brain. How deeply have commercial messages penetrated your own day-to-day life? Does the presence of that advertising bother you? Are there things about it that you like and that you would miss?

5. When Titus and his friends are disconnected from the feed for several days, how do they entertain themselves? What does Violet mean when she says, “Maybe these are our salad days” (page 60)? If your life is routinely spent online, what happens when you go offline for an extended period?