You may have noticed that the cover image is a shot of a stand of trees. It's actually on the walk up Horn Pond mountain (ok more of a hillock). There are several attempts at "bad pun" here:
1) I want you to see the forest AND the trees. The big picture and some of the details. 2) It is also inspired by a recent book I read, by Cixin Liu - The Dark Forest, it is the second book in a trilogy starting with The Three Body Problem. Science fiction, all 3 are tomes. But fascinating reading. The Dark Forest concept is that while humans stomp through a forest, we rarely see anything in it, and it's easy to think we're in the forest by ourselves. But if you are quiet and watch a bit, you will easily see that the forest is teeming with life: both predators and prey. Humans are uniquely stupid in assuming nobody else is out there -- as exemplified by the fact we have no qualms about broadcasting radio and other signals into space willy-nilly. One way to look at this is: we are telling the universe "Hey, there's lunch here, come visit and take it, enslave a planet ..." The other lesson is something we can tell our kids (and friends even if they are not kids): the internet is a dark forest, teeming with predators, and if you're not careful about spewing your personal information everywhere, you will become the prey. Seriously. Something to start thinking about taking on a mindset to change one's behavior interacting with social media and everything else on the internet.
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