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The novel depicts a future world in which the Internet has evolved into the "Feednet"; a computer network to which the brains of American citizens are directly connected by means of an implanted computer chip called a "Feed". Privacy has become a thing of the past; Corporations are free to monitor and manipulate citizens' thoughts, people's thoughts are interrupted by the mental equivalent of pop-up ads, sometimes to a debilitating degree, and the government can even subpoena one's memories. Image File history File links Information_icon. ... A computer network is a system for communication between computers. ... Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to keep their lives and personal affairs out of public view, or to control the flow of information about themselves. ... Dozens of pop-up ads cover a desktop. ... A subpoena is a writ commanding a person to appear under penalty (from Latin). ...

The novel is a dark satire about corporate power, consumerism, information technology, and data mining carried to terrifying extremes. Consumerism is a term used to describe the effects of equating personal happiness with purchasing material possessions and consumption. ... Information Technology (IT)[1] is a broad subject concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing information, especially in large organizations. ... Data mining (DM), also called Knowledge-Discovery in Databases (KDD) or Knowledge-Discovery and Data Mining, is the process of automatically searching large volumes of data for patterns using association rules. ...

Characters in Feed (in order of appearance)

• Titus (narrator)
• Link Arwaker
• Marty
• Calista
• Loga
• Quendy
• Violet Durn
• the Hacker from "the Coalition of pity"
• Titus' father
• Smell Factor (Titus' younger brother)
• Titus' mother
• Violet's father
• Nina -- Violet's computer-generated "FeedTech customer assistance representative".

Plot

While vacationing on the moon Titus and his companions meet Violet, who they invite to go partying with them. While at a club, a man from the Coalition of Pity, an anti-feed organization, causes the feeds of Violet, Titus, and various others to seriously malfunction.

Through Titus' eyes, M. L. Anderson's vision of a futuristic world unfolds. "People lose skin" more and more, to fashionable lesions. The feed companies manipulate the people using feeds. Somewhere outside the U.S. people fight and riot and die.

All the while Violet's world is falling apart, her fingers and toes, then hands and feet, and finally limbs freeze up for hours at a time. She comes from a poor family, and because of this she didn't get a feed until she was 7. Feed technicians say that her brain had already matured, that the model of feed she had was too cheap to completely adapt. Her father's guilt is unimaginable.

Awards and nominations

• Finalist 2002 National Book Award for Young People's Literature [1]
• Winner 2003 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction [2]
• Winner 2003 Golden Duck Awards Hal Clement Award for Young Adults [3]
• Nominee 2005-2006 Green Mountain Book Award [4]

For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The National Book Award is one of the most important literary prizes in the United States, presented annually for the best books by living U.S. citizens published in the U.S. The awards have been presented since 1950 in at least one category, and are presently awarded in each... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards were first presented by The Boston Globe and Horn Book Magazine in 1967. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Golden Duck Awards for Excellence in Childrens Science Fiction have been given annually since 1992. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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