Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future, by Hal Niedzviecki
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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?From the eBook edition.
Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future, by Hal Niedzviecki - Amazon Sales Rank: #993513 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-20
- Released on: 2015-10-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.99" h x .89" w x 6.00" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future, by Hal Niedzviecki Review "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
About the Author 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.From the eBook edition.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Are you pedalling faster but getting nowhere? By P. Friel This is a great, albeit pessimistic book. I heard Hal Niedzviecki interviewed on To the Best of Our Knowledge from Wisconsin Public Radio, and ordered Trees On Mars immediately. In it, he gives us a lot to think about. He argues that our quality of life is declining despite Moore's Law and all its consequences, as well as the frantic pace of so many of our lives. Despite our material abundance, many of us sense that we have lost the thread of living in a civilized way. Many businesses seem to operate as rackets. Narcissism is rampant.I finished the book while taking my wife to a Podiatrist appointment at the University Sports Medicine Clinic, and did the book ever resonate! Despite having been seen at the clinic 6 months earlier, they couldn't find my wife in their computer system ("We changed databases recently"). The printer connected to the computer connected to the X-ray machine was broken. Later in the visit we met with their orthotic/shoe expert, who told us that NONE of the major shoe manufacturers does any quality control anymore, so much of their inventory is garbage. He spends a lot of his time grinding down the heels of patients' new shoes so they make a reasonably square contact with the ground. We drove home and I switched on the TV - they were interviewing John Bogle, the founder of Vanguard, about the recent stock market downdraft. It sounded like something I could learn from. Only I couldn't watch it because our cable feed (for which we pay a lot) was so unstable that only one word out of three was audible. Thank you Hal for telling it like it is!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. It is surprising facts that many college students were encouraged to join tech sectors as a way of chasing the future even befor By Zoë S. Roy Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future by Hal Niedzviecki is an invaluable book that explores the pop culture of chasing tomorrow. The book reminded the reader of Alvin Toffler’s The Third Wave at first glance. Based on many social surveys, interviews of people from all walks of life, and tremendous research, the author has provided the reader with facts and provoking thoughts on technology and the future. Many unique points have been made and can be adopted by think tanks. The parts about students and schools interest the reader the most. It is surprising facts that many college students were encouraged to join tech sectors as a way of chasing the future even before they finished their degrees and that a pursuit of higher education was considered as a waste of time and money. Meanwhile many elementary school students were offered iPads as a way to prepare them ready for the future. The phenomena raise these questions: Is the ability to read and write less important than the ability to use a digital device? Is higher education less important than just learning instant lessons about technology? Can innovation really help the young generation embrace the unknown future?Using the time of Homo erectus to the civilization of Mesopotamia and the culture of the Chumash people on Southern California’s Channel Islands as evidences, the author offers his thought that “for most of human life there is little tradition of embracing chaos, of fostering the new, of empowering people to be change agents.” (P.180) It is not shocking to know that the result of the author’s focus group of university graduates that they “have grown up with every possible privilege. And yet they are confused and wounded with no idea of what is coming next,” (P. 227) as Niedzviecki concludes.The reader enjoys The End chapter of the book and admires Christy Foley for her ambition and bravery getting ready to explore Mars. The life cycle of birth and death also applies to Earth. If we humans desire to outlive the planet Earth, colonization on Mars is perhaps an excellent option.Y Generation does not have Baby Boomers’ luck, neither has gained enough life experience and establishment as X Generation has, but Y Generation doe own more future even though they face more challenge. However, standing on the shoulders of the older generations, they are living their lives, ups and downs, through the future shock era.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. EMBRACE THE FUTURE? PREPARE FOR THE FALLOUT? OR... By RICH As he nears the conclusion of his fascinating new book, Trees on Mars, Canadian Social Commentator Hal Niedzviecki quotes the Tofflers’ seminal look ahead, “Future Shock” first published almost 50 years ago, during an age when computers were merely punch-card shuffling mechanisms used in the biggest of big business. Seen as enormously prescient as the decades advanced, the huge best-seller was STILL prescient enough to be reprinted twenty years later.To survive the future, Toffler advised, “the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.” As Niedzviecki so ably demonstrates, that was then...this is now, and it is quite obvious that most of us are not “more adaptable and capable” and never will be. In fact, there’s mounting evidence to suggest that embracing the constant change of the future-obsessed is not only counter-productive to the planet (to put it mildly) but our individual, personal lives.But, you argue, you gotta take the good with the bad. However, as Niedzviecki marshals the evidence and painstakingly and imaginatively builds his case, it is clear that “good” does NOT outweigh “bad”; that whatever convenience-based good most of us enjoy comes at a huge price our societies will soon no longer be capable of paying.So, what then?Don’t be tempted to skip the middle chapters and hurry on to the author’s conclusion. Allow the author to build the evidence (both anecdotal and statistical) and then you will realize why he—and many of those he reads, talks to and corresponds with--are convinced that the imperative to “stop” what has been called “progress” is now moot. The rush to the future—to shape it, form it, make it our own--simply CANNOT be stopped. And in attempting to “embrace” the future, as the Tofflers suggested so long ago, we have, instead, become its slaves.So, what now?The author’s conclusion is a rational, logical and very human response to both the “embrace the future” or “prepare from apocalypse” alternatives so prevalent today. And the take he and others have of just HOW the future will likely unfold makes imminent sense, too. So, forget the dystopian Sci-Fi movies and TV shows (although, you might wonder why there are so many of them...)It’s early days yet, but this is likely one of the best books I will read this year . Certainly one of the most important. I recommend Trees on Mars to the angst-ridden, anxiety-prone (come on, now, ‘fess up!) iphone/ipad/computer-obsessed, future-obsessed individuals most of us have now become.
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