6 Jun
2012
6 Jun
'12
5:56 p.m.
It was with great sadness I felt on hearing the news of the death of
Ray Bradbury. His science fiction literature, that of computer in
nature, gave me my earliest knowledge concerning computers and the
potential they had. He will truly be missed.
Murray---
7 Jun
7 Jun
12:34 p.m.
In article <CAMvyYF-f0a_t24js6WKxVQfqWuRwsoUVnoOtsXH_eWd=qF9ULQ at mail.gmail.com>,
Murray McCullough <c.murray.mccullough at gmail.com> writes:
It was with great sadness I felt on hearing the news
of the death of
Ray Bradbury. [...]
Apparently he was quite the luddite, eschewing computers, email and
the internet for a long, long time.
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12:54 p.m.
> It was with great sadness I felt on hearing the
news of the death of
> Ray Bradbury. [...]
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Richard wrote:
Apparently he was quite the luddite, eschewing
computers, email and
the internet for a long, long time.
What do his Twitter and Facebook pages say?
1:24 p.m.
Did Bradbury ever refer to himself as a "science fiction writer"?
Although he wrote stories set in futuristic (or alternate reality)
places, I was under the impression that such stuff was mostly the
backdrop for his storytelling.
One of his short stories that's a favorite of mine isn't SF (and
perhaps not fiction at all) --"The First Night of Lent".
--Chuck
2:19 p.m.
Bradbury was more of a Futurist imho. He truly saw what things would
be like and put them into realworld context and perspective.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Did Bradbury ever refer to himself as a "science
fiction writer"?
Although he wrote stories set in futuristic (or alternate reality)
places, I was under the impression that such stuff was mostly the
backdrop for his storytelling.
One of his short stories that's a favorite of mine isn't SF (and
perhaps not fiction at all) --"The First Night of Lent".
--Chuck
2:29 p.m.
In article <4FD0F0BE.80303 at atarimuseum.com>,
"Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com> writes:
Bradbury was more of a Futurist imho.
....not really sure how you can simultaneously be a futurist and a luddite.
Bradbury wouldn't even let electronic editions of his books be
published until the past couple of years or so, according to reports.
Every futurist I know (and I know plenty from scifi/nanotech circles)
is a relatively quick, if not early, adopter of new technologies.
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3:14 p.m.
Richard wrote:
It's actually very easy. You just need two things. You should be able
to predict where society is going, and you need to not *like* where
society is going.
Peace... Sridhar
Bradbury was
more of a Futurist imho.
....not really sure how you can simultaneously be a futurist and a luddite.
4:07 p.m.
{two thumbs up} on comment :-)
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Richard wrote:
It's actually very easy. You just need two things. You should be
able to predict where society is going, and you need to not *like*
where society is going.
Peace... Sridhar
Bradbury
was more of a Futurist imho.
....not really sure how you can simultaneously be a futurist and a
luddite.
4:11 p.m.
On 7 Jun 2012 at 14:19, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Bradbury was more of a Futurist imho. He truly saw
what things
would be like and put them into realworld context and perspective.
Sort of--but a fair number of his stories weren't set in the future
at all.
For me, the attraction of Bradbury is his way with words--almost
poetic in the way he crafted them. That's probably one of the
reasons that his stories set for film didn't particularly work all
that well.
For someone who used a typewriter for his writing, didn't drive and
refused to fly, he wasn't much of a futurist in real life. I don't
imagine that he ever owned a mobile phone, either.
--Chuck
5:36 p.m.
HG Wells didn't own any of that stuff either, yet his stories were quite prophetic
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 7, 2012, at 4:11 PM, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 7 Jun 2012 at 14:19, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Bradbury was more of a Futurist imho. He
truly saw what things
would be like and put them into realworld context and perspective.
Sort of--but a fair number of his stories weren't set in the future
at all.
For me, the attraction of Bradbury is his way with words--almost
poetic in the way he crafted them. That's probably one of the
reasons that his stories set for film didn't particularly work all
that well.
For someone who used a typewriter for his writing, didn't drive and
refused to fly, he wasn't much of a futurist in real life. I don't
imagine that he ever owned a mobile phone, either.
--Chuck 
9 Jun
9 Jun
1:01 a.m.
For me, the attraction of Bradbury is his way with
words--almost
poetic in the way he crafted them.
Almost? :) The man was a genius at spinning images with words.
He will be missed.
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