Trees On Mars

Our Obsession with the Future

Hal Niedzviecki

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Seven Stories Press,U.S.
15 November 2015

"The future is big right now-for perhaps the first time, our society is more focused on what isgoing to happen in the futurethanwhat is happening right now. InTreesonMars- Our Obsession with the Future, cultural critic and indie entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki asks how and when we started believing we could and should ""create the future.""What is it like to live in a society utterly focused on what is going to happen next?

Through visits to colleges, corporations, tech conferences, factories and more, Niedzviecki traces the story of how owning the future has become irresistible to us.

In deep conversation with both the beneficiaries and victims of our relentless obsession with the future, Niedzviecki asks crucial questions- Where are we actually heading? How will we get there? And whom may we be leaving behind?"

By: Hal Niedzviecki
Imprint: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 441g
ISBN: 9781609806378
ISBN 10: 1609806379
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 15 November 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

One of North America's smartest and most explosive contrarians,HAL NIEDZVIECKIis a writer, speaker, and culture commentator known for challenging preconceptions and exploring the new patterns of tech-infused everyday life. He is the author of three previous books of nonfiction, includingThe Peep Diaries- How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our NeighborsandHello, I'm Special- How Individuality Became the New Conformity.The Peep Diarieswas made into a television documentary entitledPeep Culture, produced for the CBC and shown at festivals and on television in six countries. Niedzviecki's articles on contemporary life have appeared in newspapers, periodicals, and journals across the world includingNew York Times Magazine,Playboy,Utne Reader, and theGlobe and Mail. He serves as publisher and fiction editor ofBroken Pencil, the seminal indie culture publication that he founded in 1995. Niedzviecki grew up in the suburbs of Washington DC, and currently lives in Toronto with his wife and two daughters. For more information, see his website, AlongCameTomorrow.com.

Reviews for Trees On Mars: Our Obsession with the Future

Hal Niedzviecki's urgent, eye-opening Trees on Mars exposes our mania for the future as exactly what it is: an ideology as narrow and dangerous as any we've known from history. Read this book and be the first on your block to recall the rebel thrill of living in the present. --J.B. MacKinnon, author of The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be Hal Niedzviecki ... is one of the wisest, funniest and most acute cultural critics writing today. --Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine