GeekyMNGurl: You are forgetting a major one, information. Technology allows us to know calories of foods easier, and which foods has them. All in our pocket, anytime we want.
Gushloader:
Hi,
I am wondering how technology, especially Internet changed the feederism world. I am mainly interested in the following aspects
1. Communication: since the internet can connect people from all over the world, in theory it should be easier to find likeminded people. However I think that all information about feederism is so scattered that the impact, even though the potential is huge is really scarce.
2. Deliveries: now we have Uber Eats, Just Eat or Doordash if you're in the US. Does it help the lifestyle? I think yes. Even those 20 years ago you had to physically go to a restaurant or at best call. Now it seems to be much easier.
3. What else can we do? How can we tap in the endless world of technology to help our little feederism planet?
this is a really interesting topic, i think!
technology is huge - i was a fat admirer (or chubby chaser) before i'd discovered the internet, but i don't know if i even had that terminology to apply to it... it wasn't until i got online that i discovered, holy cow, there are other people interested in this kind of thing! and back then (late 1990s) it was still a very closeted thing. so the interent and communication via social media did a *lot* to connect me to "my people," but it also ramped up the size acceptance movement. now all kinds of people of size are flaunting what they got on tiktok!
i don't think deliveries are a huge factor. i think the change in the content of food has made a much larger impact. not just delivery, but the proliferations of pre-packaged, prepared foods. even when i think back to college, the cafeteria made real food. now those places are just performing an elaborate re-heating exercise in many cases. so i think this change in the actual material of what we're eating has had a very large impact, and why obesity has been on the rise (amongst non-feedists as well!).
geekymngirl's note about information & data is really interesting. a couple of years ago i got an app to track my calories to see how much i was eating, and how it related to my weight. it was a really interesting experience, because it was allowing me to turn my habits into data - something that wasn't really possible before with such precision, before the existence of online databases with all of this info, and a way to conveniently track it. i was surprised to find i was eating over 6,000 calories a day even without stuffing myself at that time!
the tech we need in the near future is one of those hover-belt things that baron harkonnen from the dune books uses, to increase our mobility and allow us to grow even larger.