Ray Bradbury, one of the only science-fiction grandmasters still breathing, recently gave an interview to the New York Times, wherein he attacked the Internet. I love Bradbury and all of his books, he is a wonderful writer, but his opinion on the Internet smacks of old-school thinking and an inability to embrace the new and now.
From the New York Times:
The Internet? Don’t get him started. “The Internet is a big distraction,” Mr. Bradbury barked from his perch in his house in Los Angeles, which is jammed with enormous stuffed animals, videos, DVDs, wooden toys, photographs and books, with things like the National Medal of Arts sort of tossed on a table.
“Yahoo called me eight weeks ago,” he said, voice rising. “They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? ‘To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.’
“It’s distracting,” he continued. “It’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere.”
A Yahoo spokeswoman said it was impossible to verify Mr. Bradbury’s account without more details.
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Wow.