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Trees on Mars : our obsession with the future
Title
Trees on Mars : our obsession with the future / Hal Niedzviecki.
ISBN
9781609806378
1609806379
Edition
Seven Stories Press first edition.
Publication
New York : Seven Stories Press, [2015]
Physical Description
317 pages ; 23 cm
Summary
A roller-coaster tour through our obsession with the future - and what's at stake when we neglect our present. Tech bloggers livecast the launch of the latest Kindle, crowds form serpentine lines outside of Apple stores on the eve of new iPhone releases, stock markets surge and recede on rumours of what Intel and Microsoft have in the pipeline, and, on college campuses across the country, universities offer master's degrees in Future Studies. Meet futurist consultants who preach the need for constant change, to a fourth-generation New Jersey dairy farmer grappling with the increasing complexities of a once-bucolic industry, to a group of Stanford undergraduates pulling all-nighters in an effort to produce the next must-have app. Through these characters and others, Niedzviecki shows how future-obsession and future-anxiety are affecting real people. Print run 20,000.
Variant and related titles
Our obsession with the future
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 24, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Our lives in the age of tomorrow
Chasing tomorrow: dispatches from our obsession with the future
Teaching future: why schools are teaching change and preaching tech
The group just slows us down: future vs. institution
Data harvest: owning the future and everyone in it
Our minds in the future
After: why our minds are vulnerable to the pull of future
Put a spell on me: when the magic became the information
The case against the future
Consumption, innovation, and the truth of change
The human robot: homo economicus in decline
Future shock and awe: anxiety factory
The end
Escape from the permanent future: the problem of hope.
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