Thursday, June 7, 2012

HIS IMAGINATION WILL BE MISSED

The great American writer Ray Bradbury has died, aged 91.
My favourite Bradbury work is the short story The Flying Machine. It is a lovely piece and I recommend a Google search for it. You might find it at http://raybradbury.ru/library/story/53/4/0/ for a free online read and it is certainly worth your time.
Strange to note, Ray Bradbury loved books and libraries but hated the Internet.
I think Arthur C Clarke would rate Ray’s attitude as a very strange failure of imagination.
For me, Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web and the hyperlink are wonders that take us ever closer to the age of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s noosphere.