- How does having the "feed" affect Titus' personality and intelligence? What passages demonstrate this?
The feeds just tell/ advertise things to him to buy stuff that he will be interested in. His personality is not very much affected by the feed, but his intelligence is seriously AFFECTED by the feed. For example, when Titus, his friends, and Violet were all in a cell. Violet told Titus about the dead languages and Titus did not have one clue what it is. Also when Violet took out a piece of paper and a pen from her bag Titus looked at her weird. And he said that he can read a little, but protested in School(TM). This example from the book show how not intelligence Titus is without the feed.
- Respond to page 97. Relate this to marketing tactics in today's society. What is your "type?" What ads would you get if you had a "feed?" How often would you chat? How would chatting affect modern day communication?
Business people also use commercials to get consumerism to buy their products. Basically, the same tactics is used to make people buy products.
My types would just be manga books, clothing, electronics, art materials, and cleaning materials.
The ads that I would probably get are book store ads, clothing and electronic ads, and cleaning ads.
If I had a feed I would not chat a lot. Probably, about 20 minutes to one hour per five days.
How chatting affects modern day communication is that there would be not a lot of noises. When they chat next to each other it seems as if there is a very long silence between them. like they have nothing else to do besides sitting. If it is a far away chatting people do not know what the other person's, who they are chatting to, emotions and facial expression would look like. Chatting would totally change the way people talk with one another.
- "Now that School(TM) is run by the corporations, it's pretty brag, because it teaches us how the world can be used, like mainly how to use our feeds" (p.90). In what ways does school and society teach us how to use the world? Why is consumer culture so strong? Why is it beneficial for companies to teach people how to consume? How is it dangerous?
School and society teaches us how we are going to hold the economy together.School teaches us how to go to college and find a suitable job for ourselves. Society gives us experiences.
consumer culture is strong because most people are easily influenced by the commercial ads.
It is beneficial because they will have money to pay their workers and enough money to produce some more products.
It is dangerous because not all the products that are produced help the economy.
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