[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

You know what I told them? ‘To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet`.  It’s distracting.  It’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere."

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[nickcarraway]

Something Click-ed This Way Comes

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Ray Bradbury is right. Anything created by Al Gore is suspect in my mind.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

By this logic, books then, are simply paper.

[EternalVigilance]

And ironically, I never would have had the benefit of Mr. Bradbury’s opinion without the internet.

[ottbmare]

Who would have thought that a man who seemed so able to envision the future could have so completely missed the meaning of the internet. It is not meaningless or a mere distraction; it is a tool as powerful as the printing press once was. It changes everything, and we are living at the time when it was born.

[Arthur McGowan]

Who is “George Orson Welles”?

[Dallas59]

Well...he's got a point...

White House.gov

[this_ol_patriot]

Such greats as George Orson Welles, Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov had already passed away.

Unless you want no wine before it's time it's H.G. Wells or Herbert George Wells as he was known to his momma.

[Arthur McGowan]

I think he meant H.G.Wells. George Orson Welles—Orson Welles—wasn’t a science fiction writer, that I know of.

[StilettoRaksha]

I adore him.

[JRandomFreeper]

Perhaps he should spend some time on Mars.

/johnny

[this_ol_patriot]

Surprisingly he should marvel at the Internet as it's one of the modern wonders, as close to Asimov’s Encyclopedia Galactica as you can get today.

[tdscpa]

tdscpa doesn't believe in Ray Bradbury. He is an 88 year old senile idiot.

[Age of Reason]

Bradbury is right.

[Cementjungle]

A pic of my mother-in-law with her birthday card/letter from her friend Ray:

[steel_resolve]

You know what I told them? ‘To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet`. It’s distracting. It’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere."

"Now you kids get off my lawn! Judge Judy is coming on in 10 minutes. Where are my Pants?"

[Kirkwood]

FR is distracting, but not meaningless.

[JRandomFreeper]

Let me be a little more serious and philosophical about this.... RAH said that the man of the future would be a librarian, that picked up the scattered knowledge of humanity and organized it. Good call.

Ass-i-mov had the great library in space with special people that could discern movements in masses of people.

And Bradbury, with his unreadable Carbuncles of Mars, hates the internet.

I submit that RAH was at least as forwardthinking as Ass-i-mov. And both were more forwardthinking than Bradbury.

Just honest opinions.

Flame suit isn't on. I'm going to close the laptop and go to bed and see, tomorrow, what my opinion has wrought.

/johnny

[LibFreeOrDie]

"it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere."

Geez, did he say the same thing about radio?

The Internet is the biggest library ever.