This is a transcript from the video series Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature. It’s all the awesome products suggested by the Feed, which is the microchip in everyone’s brain that not only gives you instant communication with all your friends and access to whatever information you want, but also, most importantly, keeps you up to date with all the latest products you need to truly be an individual. But this has nothing to do with the Moon. When Titus and his group of friends get there, they find hundreds of other bored teenagers just like them who are trying to find fun stuff to do, but it’s always just the same stuff-getting high, having sex, listening to music. We went on a Friday because there was shit-all to do at home.
We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck. (Image: Lenka Horavova/Shutterstock) Titus and the Feedįeed’s opening clearly sets up the voice of Titus, the protagonist. The Feed is based on the idea of how technology can be used to constantly bombard users with distracting content. The novel is still very much read by young people, including those who were born in the 21st century and who have never experienced a world not dominated by social media. He wrote for a young adult audience born in the late 1980s and early 1990s. By Pamela Bedore, Ph.D., University of Connecticut M.T.
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