Jun 24 2009Interesting: Ray Bradbury Hates The Internets

UGLY!!!

He's showing what it's like when gay robots try to have homorobosex

TEH INTERWEBZ IZ MAYDE OF INNERTUBES FOR SURFIN ON!

He looks like a ugly troll that lives under a bridge writing books on a typewriter.

http://gawdimsobored.mybrute.com

IT'S BUDDHA'S MUTHER TRUCKIN' HAND!!!!!!

Nigga you crazy

I would love to have heard Ray Bradbury tell the reps from Yahoo, "To hell with you!"

Hmmm.... Ray Bradbury... I forgot ALL about him. I thought he was dead.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

his suggestive hand gestures are fantastic. The best I've seen. That's a lie. I once saw Michael Moore tell a dirty joke in JUST hand gestures.

Wow! He's one of my favorite authors and he can't figure out the intertubes. So sad. So very sad.

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactlyu like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was talking to his deceased father on the ham radio. Max wondered why the ham band wasn't near the bacon band, while his father talked about the NY mets and their championship run. Then Max figured out howe his dad died, and saved him, he also told him to invest in Yahoo, and changed the past which changed the present.

Bradbury is a traitor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://driftwood-x.mybrute.com

How is this surprizing to anyone? Haven't we all read Farenheit 451? The internet is part of the culturally based fears he expressed in his writing.

Bah. Books are stupid. What if there is a fire? I just don't trust them. I was raised on cuneiform tablets, and that's all that anyone needs. Paper is far too light and fragile, and printing fades in the sun. Nothing look good old clay tablets to keep the words fresh for eons, and of course the smell of freshly dried clay.

@8 i didnt forget him... but i did naturally assume he was dead

now that i know he isnt... im quite shocked

in 5 minutes ill cease to care either way

@13

It's also the home of fringe dissention for which his protagonists thrived.

Bradbury--

they wanna get rid of the internet because nobody is reading newspapers or books anymore, and more people are getting sick of the bullsh!t on TV, not only that, look at all the anti gov. content on the internet, The Arrivals,The Industry,Zeitgeist,Obama Deception,Endgame,Esoteric Aggenda,Alex Jones radio show, Micheal Savage radio show.it all exposes the truth about everything.

poor old man. he's just losing it and turning into a typical geezbag. hey F you bradbury. without los interweb there would be nothing!

To hell with you all! To hell with the interwebs!

clearly not his faul he doen't know of geekologie or xbl

Of course a writer is going to be against the internet. Have you seen what it's done to our spelling and grammar?

i think he is trying to form and allegiance with the robots in order to strike out against geekologie.com ...... DOt MUTHA FRAKIN COM BIIIIZIIIITCH

Meh, he's senile. "It's meaningless; it's not real..."? Like your science fiction novels Mr. Bradbury?

I think he is a robot.......and I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

http://bootelicious.mybrute.com

series of tubes FTW!

lol @ everyone above me: HOW DARE YOU SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT MY PRECIOUS INTERNET!!!!! YOU MUST BE A FOOL, MR BRADBURY!!! INTERNEEEEETTTTTT!!!!!

actually peeps
he's on the money

whatever you or i think
a decision is being made at a collective level
between virtual and real

while we are playing our games
ooing and aaaing with our new toys
the next generation in 20 years will be living lives mostly on the net and in cities
and what the condition of the planet will be
we will only be able to remember how good it was

give him a little credit
for a very humanist sci-fi writer
i guess his vibe is real

You guys are either a bunch of id!ots or ignorant @ssholes, one or the other.

Bradbury is one of the best modern day sci/fantasy writers of our time, and if you actually READ books such as F-451, Brave New World, or 1984, you'd realize what a bunch of fu%king cattle you really are.

lol
THESE DAMN KIDS AND THERE FANDANGLED GOOGLES AND INTERWEBS!
Sounds like he's just a stubborn old guy that dismisses anything that he dosn't understand.

@30

why would i care about his opinions in his books if he is so dismissive of the internet.

For all its faults the internet is one of the 20th centurys greatest inventions.
for him to say its "It's distracting," he continued. "It's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere" just shows that he is ignorant.

you could argue that most books are "meaningless." you could argue the highest selling book (the bible) is meaningless.

you call us cattle, what about you. you think that cos you`ve read his books you can call us these things. the irony is your just cattle for following what he`s written about. just cos he wrote it, doesnt mean its true/relevant or that it give you some sort of higher status so you can have a go at those mocking somone who cant understand the concept of the intenet.

i`m sure the people of iran wanting to speak out against there government dont think the intenet is meaningless.

Great author, he's not exactly relevant with modern time though really.

Also, http://tinyurl.com/njt7uq

Johnny - I would say that his concept of a desensitized society is very relevant.
To someone who fears the "selfish, bigger is better, nothing is my fault, distract me from my life with baubles" lifestyle and choices, I would say he was more on the money than even he realized when he wrote F451. I'm not saying we've gone that far, but the concept is there.
His fear of the internet may be ignorance, or it could be founded in the fact that humans with easy internet access are changing (or losing, in some cases), their human interaction. The anonymity the net provides is too comfortable for many people. The massive amount of text and ideas is leading to a denigration of our language, while at the same time expanding our available information (which we value less and less the more available it becomes).
Case in point – I transferred this text into MSW to use spell-check, because I was certain I missed something, but didn’t want to take the time to re-read and figure it out.

Damn that's a lot to read, too much for my short attent

This picture is pretty funny to me, well worthy of a photochop contest. The captions hehehe...... If someone photoshopped an innocent little kitteh into his hand, that picture wouldn't look any less menacing & defintely be FTMFW

Ah! What a relief!
Finally a post on Geekologie without any mention of penises, boobs, or kittens.
Just something about technology, you know...
Like in the "good old days"
:(

(just kidding, of course, the GW could not NOT make a stupid crack, once again...)

this will be turned into a meme.

A big distraction?? Meaningless??! WTF. I'm really pissed off about this. Hey ray, i have 200 gigabytes of really great porn thanks to the internet. What do you say to that huh? huh?

And your unhelpful criticisms about the internet have proven to be a meaningless distraction from all that great porn. Speaking of which, ill talk to you guys later. I have to go, um, wash the dishes.

Did he died?

@35. NAAS!!!!

I know its a little late, but I made this for you. I hope you see it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39488895@N02/3658679232/

The internet is not a big truck!

check out his website:
http://www.raybradbury.com/

he was supposed to come to my school this year to speak at our graduation then backed out. rude.

If you read some of his short stories this is not unexpected at all. He has a story bitching about people talking on their wristwatches about inane bull on the ride home from work written in the fcuking 1950's. He predicted moronic cell phone conversations 50 years ago!

hes better then you! assfarts

Wow, what an idiot.

#30 is taking you all for a ride, and demonstrating that very few of the people posting here have ever read a book in their lives (hence the rise of the "they're-tards"). Any of you ever heard of Aldous Huxley? Isaac Asimov? Uh… Paris Hilton flashing her non-lippy vagina as she exits a limousine? Common ground, at last.

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone.

@41 hahahaha, just awesome

Hey Ray, when you start your militant force organized and systematically burning all of the tubes that make the internet, can I be part of it?

p.s. What is the burning temperature of tubes? I think i have an idea for a book!

Geekologie Writer obviously doesn't read into much literature...

@52

Awesome.

When one leads a well-rounded life one can do many things, including taking a hike in the wilderness, going to wine and cheese parties, having sex with their partner, reading old books and surfing the interwebs. It's not an either-or proposition.

There're and there will be more like him.I see the internet like the collective electronic memory of humans in their best and worst way.The human is a very sexual and playful creature.Fantasy plays an important part in the human mind.It's almost frightening how human being internet is.

Boo!

look at his fingers..
Girugamesh 8D

Ray Bradbury, is one of the greatest authors to have ever lived. What he was trying to adress, was how Man creates this little fantasy, the internet, and tries in all ways to make it real. I mean WHAT ARE YOU DEFENDING? You are saying horrible things, to protect WHAT!? Your stupid childhood fantasy, of being anyone you want, of not being seen or judged, of a fairytale! Oh, and HE WASN'T BEING LITERAL WHEN SAYING " HANGING IN THE AIR"! HE MEANT IT WASN'T REAL! HE MENT IT WAS WASTED HOPE!

Ray Bradbury, is one of the greatest authors to have ever lived. What he was trying to adress, was how Man creates this little fantasy, the internet, and tries in all ways to make it real. I mean WHAT ARE YOU DEFENDING? You are saying horrible things, to protect WHAT!? Your stupid childhood fantasy, of being anyone you want, of not being seen or judged, of a fairytale! Oh, and HE WASN'T BEING LITERAL WHEN SAYING " HANGING IN THE AIR"! HE MEANT IT WASN'T REAL! HE MENT IT WAS WASTED HOPE!

last

The irony of it is, couldn't you consider stories such as the one he writes to be "not real?" I mean, the paper they're printed on is real, yes, but the ideas are not. They're just some intangible concept; they're a fantasy we indulge in. That's not to say it's not a great fantasy, it's merely to say I think he should be more careful in his considerations. I tend to think that books have this romanticized quality where they have some intrinsic value just by being "books", as though reading the content off of paper rather than a screen will make you smarter, or feel more emotion, or better understand a concept. It's not the medium on which it's printed, it's the idea itself.