Words like innovate, change, and adapt can be inspirational or the agent of doom for our well-being, depending on your perspective. In Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future, Hal Niedzviecki takes us on a ride through the technology & ideas which promise that we can "win the future", giving us a penetrating look at the consequences of our mad rush "forward". Hal is founder and fiction editor of Broken Pencil Magazine, a "mega-zine", and author of several fiction & non-fiction books. Some books by Hal Niedzviecki: The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future Hello Im Special: How Individuality Became the new Conformity We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture