How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph) or (Feed Chatter #.Paragraph)
Quote #1
We went out to this place that Marty said served the best electrolyte chunkies, but it had closed a year before. It was dinnertime, so we had dinner at a J.P. Barnum's Family Extravaganza, which was pretty good, and just like the one at home. We got some potato skins for appetizers. (2.5)
Bummer. The hot local restaurant has shut down, so the kids have to go to Applebee's instead—we mean, they have to go to J.P. Barnum's Family Extravaganza instead. (Totally different.) Titus and his friends even order something yawningly boring, like potato skins. This is one of the examples of Violet's point that people's tastes are becoming more streamlined, and people are becoming more alike. It also shows that, just like now, potato skins are delicious in the future.
Quote #2
Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe. (10.2)
LOLOLOL computers used be to outside the body! Hilarious, right? Think about this next time you laugh at your dad's old Nokia brick. But seriously: Titus thinks this is more shocking than hilarious, because has a hard time imagining the system not being an integral part of his body. For him, the feed is as vital as the most vital of organs.
Quote #3
That's one of the great things about the feed--that you can be supersmart without ever working. Everyone is supersmart now. You can look things up automatic, like science and history, like if you want to know which battles of the Civil War George Washington fought in and s***. (10.3)
*Ree Rah* *Ree Rah* Hear that? It's the Major Satire Alert alarm. And it's not Just a Test, people. What Titus is saying here is super satirical, because the people in his world are not supersmart at all. (Evidence: George Washington never fought in the Civil War. Wiki it.) In fact, they don't even have to think for themselves most of the time. Instead of making them supersmart, the feed has actually made everyone super… well, dumb.