WOW! This has got to be one of the best things to hit my screen all week.
I want to thank you for bringing me a piece of "true reality". I truly
loved Bradbury in my younger years and in reading your post, I remember why.
What makes this really hit home is the fact that I have a 9 year old at
home. Can't wait to see him tonight and talk about some dreams!
I am going to be rushing out to get this whole article. Thanks for the
magic, Al.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu]On
>Behalf Of ALVIN PODBOY
>Sent: Friday, September 25, 1998 10:21 AM
>To: MMorri6866@aol.com; tas@hafa.net.gu; r.huttner@law.unimelb.edu.au;
>law-lib@ucdavis.edu
>Subject: Re: a comment re _WIRED_ October 1998
>
>
>To change the subject. There is an interesting interview of Ray
>Bradbury in this month's issue of _WIRED_. It's loosely related to
>librarianship, in that he discusses Disney Imagineering. In
>the interview
>_WIRED_ asks, "Somewhere in a third-grade class there is a 9-year-old
>who will be walking on Mars in 2020. How should we prepare that kid?"
>Bradbury replies, ... "Albert Schweitzer said do something wonderful,
>people will imitate it. If you dream the proper dreams, and share the
>myths with people, they will grow up to be like you.... If
>you and I dream
>properly and creatively, then the future will be secured.
>But reality will
>kill you unless you deal with it through myths and metaphors." Hmmmm.
>Does this relate to the past week at all? _WIRED_ further asks, " What
>myths should we share?" Bradbury answers, ... "Teach students to be
>in love with life, to love their work, to create at the top
>of their lungs. I
>love what I'm doing and started loving it when I was 12. Find
>something
>to love when your young - archeology, mythology, Egyptology, even
>computerology" (dare we add librarianship/librarianology?) "- then you
>can change the future." _WIRED_ then asks, "Are PCs and the NET
>making the future friendlier for community?" Interestingly Bradbury
>responds, "No, you've got to make personal contact. Go to
>the _library_
>(emphasis mine and added) and build a network of personal friends, a
>half dozen or so,.... Stop talking on the telephone, stop
>talking on the
>stupid Internet. It's a waste of time." I know I just
>violated that precept.
>oops. I thought the above was interesting food for thought, after a
>rather troubling week for American democracy, no matter what side of
>the aisle you sit on. For the complete article see John Geirland,
>_Bradbury's Tomorrowland_ WIRED, Oct. 1998, at 147. I remain yours
>in the magic and wonder of lawlibrarianship. Al of Cleveland.
>
>
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