Now this is the kind of messages we need on the list! Bravo, Alvin!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ALVIN PODBOY [SMTP:APODBOY@baker-hostetler.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 1998 12:21 PM
> 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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