"The Culture and Tech of Oryx and Crake"

Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake makes several powerful points about technology and culture. The world that she describes has become twisted and cruel; the protagonist and his friend Crake grow up watching child pornography, executions, and graphic surgeries on the media. This is a bold statement about our media today and how it seems that every day more profanity, violence, and sexually explicit material finds its way into our homes through TVs and the internet. Another point she makes is in the way that the world is run by huge corporations. I thought this was particularly powerful due to the way that we can see that in a less obvious way today. In the western countries of our world there are several extremely powerful corporations that pull a lot of strings in things like media, business, and even the government.