Blog Assignment 19

What are the pros and cons of the “feed”?

Pros and cons of the feed are pretty similar to the pros and cons of having a smart phone. Some pros of the feed is that you have everything you'd ever need (not including food and water) right at your fingertips. Except it wouldn't be at your fingertips, it's actually in your head. No one can rob your feed out of your hand or guess the password and scroll through your personal things, with ease at least. People can't look over your shoulder and breathe down your neck while you're texting someone or playing a game, or simply scrolling through social media. It's also one less thing to carry in your pocket or hold in your hand, and you can't lose it!
Some cons of the feed are that your brain can be hacked or shut down by an outside source. Right before Eden starts, the old man in the club goes around touching people with a rod that temporarily shuts down the feed, disconnecting it from the brain and therefore also shocking the brain. Another con is that people become very dependent of the feed. unlike a phone, you can't just take away a feed. Parents who want to discipline their children and take their phones can't do that...probably without killing them. But i'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing! Another con is that you'd never if you're a more intelligent person than anyone else because everyone has the same amount of knowledge as the next one. I guess people would have to go by common sense and personality because those are two things that the internet can't teach. A last con is that if the feed goes down, it takes you right down with it.