" We enter a time of calamity" What does this mean? Write about your response to it. 

My response to this is simple. NO KIDDING!! The second that the feed entered the brain of the first person an age of calamity had begun. Because of the fact that people just aren't smart anymore, that is not good. Because thinking's optional, because the world is being destroyed and the people don't care. Because people can be hacked, I mean what's with that.

Comparison of Life Before the Feed

In the book Titus is saying that the feed is now actually a part of him. That the net is actually a part of him now. Prior to what these people are not the ones truly controlling the feed, but it is rather the other way around. The feed is all that matters in their lives. The feed determines if you can get a job and it is all that you learn about in "school".The feed rules all. Maybe there is one thing similar to the feed, something that is essential to life. It's called a lung.

Dude

The only good explanation I can think of for this word is that it is the past. We always criticize the people older than us because they use words or phrases that we consider outdated. What we don,t seem to realize is that there will come a day that the words we use, the slang, will also be words of the past.