Living in Ray Bradbury's Future
Ray Bradbury was among those attending at a forum on futurism Tuesday in Long Beach, California. According to a news story, the participants "discussed how authors like H.G. Wells, George Orwell and Bradbury have often predicted the future through their fantastic tales."
Science fiction writer Greg Bear is quoted: "In many ways, '[Fahrenheit] 451' is a very prophetic book.. You see people today chasing people around in helicopters, banning books, monitoring what we read. We're living in Ray Bradbury's future, not all of it thank goodness, but in a sense."
The story says the forum attendees discussed "[a]uthors like Wells, Aldous Huxley and Philip Francis Nowlan, whose works in the first decades of the 20th century told of fantastic future societies filled alternately with great promise and the potential for terror and emptiness, depending on how mankind utilized the new technologies he created."
No mention of whether or not the great J. McCullough and his astonishingly prophetic work, Golf in the Year 2000, were mentioned.
The event in Long Beach is going on all week and is sponsored by the Long Beach Public Library Foundation.
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Science fiction writer Greg Bear is quoted: "In many ways, '[Fahrenheit] 451' is a very prophetic book.. You see people today chasing people around in helicopters, banning books, monitoring what we read. We're living in Ray Bradbury's future, not all of it thank goodness, but in a sense."
The story says the forum attendees discussed "[a]uthors like Wells, Aldous Huxley and Philip Francis Nowlan, whose works in the first decades of the 20th century told of fantastic future societies filled alternately with great promise and the potential for terror and emptiness, depending on how mankind utilized the new technologies he created."
No mention of whether or not the great J. McCullough and his astonishingly prophetic work, Golf in the Year 2000, were mentioned.
The event in Long Beach is going on all week and is sponsored by the Long Beach Public Library Foundation.
[Tags: events literature future books futurism California prophecy science tech technology science fiction current events current affairs]
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