Trees On Mars: Our Obsession with the Future

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What is it like to live in a society utterly focused on what is going to happen next In Trees on Mars: 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,' arguing that the short-term purview of innovation is not always as effective as we think it is. On the contrary, it's often damaging. Through real-life examples, he shows how future-obsession and future-anxiety are affecting people in the now.

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"Hal Niedzvieckis urgent, eye-openingTrees on Marsexposes our mania for the future as exactly what it is: an ideology as narrow and dangerous as any weve 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 ofThe 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 ofThe Shock Doctrine

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"One of North America's smartest and most explosive contrarians, HAL NIEDZVIECKI is 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, including The Peep Diaries- How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors and Hello, I'm Special- How Individuality Became the New Conformity. The Peep Diaries was made into a television documentary entitled Peep 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 including New York Times Magazine, Playboy, Utne Reader, and the Globe and Mail. He serves as publisher and fiction editor of Broken 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."