The Feed Book Analysis

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The feed book was released in 2002, which focuses on culture as ‘’extremely high tech low life’’ featuring advanced technological and controlled achievements processed by the feed. This book is aimed at young adult’s dystopian novel, written by M.T Anderson. However, the novel concentrates on issues such as shared power, consumerism, information technology, data mining, and also environmental decay. Which sometimes disadvantage occurs to saturation advertising and corporate management to an enormous reputation of internetworking brain implants controlled by the corporation in the novel. Which, the human cannot survive without society and societies cannot exist without people working for the feed. However, there may be conflicts between the

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