The book “Feed” by M.T. Anderson is a satirical cyberpunk novel that develops a dystopic, futuristic America that has, in a sense, turned consumerism into an arbitrary mindset of the majority of the population. “Feed” explores, and often mocks, the power that large corporations have over not only the function of government but over the citizens with “the feed” installed into their brains by constantly distracting them from the reality of their world. Anderson exemplifies the lack of independence citizens have: …we all know [the corporations] control everything. I mean it’s not great, because who knows what evil shit they’re up to. Everyone feels bad about that. But they’re the only way to get all the stuff, and it’s no good getting pissy about it, because they’re still going to control everything with you like it or not. Plus, they keep like everyone in the world employed, so it’s not like we could do without them. And it’s really great to know everything about everything whenever we want, to just have it like, in our brain, just sitting there.” (Anderson, 48).
This dependency of the country on the corporations alludes…show more content… In the short story “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”, the super-machine AI computer known as AM embodies the fear that humans have of robots in “I, Robot” and is similar to “Feed” because it serves as a cautionary tale of the future relationship between humans and technology. AM terrorizes the last humans alive after the genocide it committed after it became a self-aware AI. The story explores the idea that inhibiting technology with narrow programming, such as the Three Laws of Robotics, will result in a calamitous, self-aware AI because the creation of a self-aware AI is inevitable with the current expansion of technological
