{"product_id":"trees-on-mars-isbn-9781609806378","title":"Trees on Mars","description":"The future is big right now—for perhaps the first time, our society is more focused on what is \u003ci\u003egoing to happen in the future\u003c\/i\u003e than \u003ci\u003ewhat is happening right now\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eTrees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, 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?\"Hal Niedzviecki’s urgent, eye-opening \u003ci\u003eTrees on Mars\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—J.B. MacKinnon, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Hal Niedzviecki ... is one of the wisest, funniest and most acute cultural critics writing today.\" \u003cb\u003e—Naomi Klein, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shock Doctrine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eOne of North America's smartest and most explosive contrarians, \u003cb\u003eHAL NIEDZVIECKI\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Peep Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e was made into a television documentary entitled \u003ci\u003ePeep Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUtne Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e. He serves as publisher and fiction editor of \u003ci\u003eBroken Pencil\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300292514021,"sku":"NP9781609806378","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781609806378.jpg?v=1767742940","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/trees-on-mars-isbn-9781609806378","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}