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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.
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.
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HOW'S THIS FOR HEROISM?
You might not recognise US astronaut Bruce McCandless but I bet you have seen the picture of him in the Manned Manoeuvrable Unit. In February 1984 (on his first space mission!) McCandless spent 88 minutes out there in the MMU – and untethered. This meant he was utterly alone, relying only on the MMU’s nitrogen propulsion system and his own wits to get him back to the shuttle Challenger. This was the first time anyone had done this. For me, this kind of heroism beats anything any footballer might do.
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