Best-selling science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury says that the effort being put into creating the next new gadget could be better used toward exploring our universe and heading back to the moon.

“[Barak Obama] should be announcing that we should go back to the moon,” he tells the LA Times. “We should never have left there. We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.”

“I think our country is in need of a revolution,” Bradbury said. “There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people and for the people.”

Bradbury says that our country and world has “too many machines” and, ““We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many Internets. We have got to get rid of those machines.”

And if you’re looking for the author’s great works in electronic form, you could be in for a long wait.

“I was approached three times during the last year by Internet companies wanting to put my books” on an electronic reading device, he said. “I said to Yahoo, ‘Prick up your ears and go to hell.’ ”

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"Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars"

I wonder if he has seen the video yet?

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"Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars"

Someone seems to be getting a bit curmudgeony in his elder years.

Depending on how you look at it, it's either an amazing devotion to principle or an amazing display of ludditism that the guy who wrote about the frailty of paper books doesn't want his story ported to a new media. Oddly in his maybe less idealistic younger years he didn't have a problem with his stories being "converted" into the mediums of film and TV. I wonder what in his mind makes this new media different since one could argue that a book in electronic form is much much truer to the dead-tree source form than a movie is.

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"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
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