Trees on Mars

By - Hal Niedzviecki

Floor - Floor 4

Published - Seven Stories Press, New York, 2015

ISBN 10 - 1609806379

ISBN 13 - 9781609806378

Book Status - 2 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Social prediction

Shelf No - 6

Call Number - 973.93 HAL

Physical Description - 317 pages ; 23 cm

Notes - Includes Index

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The future is big right now—for perhaps the first time, our society is more focused on what is going to happen in the future than what is happening right now. 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.” 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?

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