![]() ![]() I wasn't thinking about the reality of consumer technology. MTA: When I wrote the book – this is back in 2001, a science-fiction future year now firmly in our past – I have to admit I just thought of the technology (the flying cars, the moon colonies) as a kind of camp sci-fi joke, and the "feed" itself as primarily something symbolic. MTH : When you sat down to write FEED, how much of the technology described within actually seemed feasible to you? His answers were nearly as insightful as I found reading the novel in the first place. He never did say "I told you so," which I think speaks to his patience almost as much as this interview does. Anderson is a patient man, who was willing to talk with me about a book he wrote more than a decade ago. It's a truer story now than ever, and so I find myself thinking about this novel often. When apps like Shazam were announced, even before the Google Glass, it seemed we were all being led, neatly, to the point of sale– and that I'd been warned about what that would be like. I remember reading Feed in 2008– already much of it seemed eerily close to the truth we were living. Now, 13 years later, I was curious if he was sick of telling us all "I told you so." ![]() ![]() Back then it was a comment on consumerism. Anderson wrote the novel Feed, which featured a future in which humans are all hardwired with computer chips (the eponymous Feeds) so they can shop. ![]()
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