I see...
...a world nearly taken over by the unthinkable...while cloned people themselves have created 'super clones' that come close to being God, but are consumed by fire each time. And Green Town becomes one of the largest industrial cities in the world, producing self contained environments duplicating Summer, 1928.

'Raydio Stations' are only allowed to broadcast readings of Ray's stories, and motion pictures no longer exist, because everything has become a commercialized motion picture, and nearly everyone is in a constant turmoil to discern with what is...and is not...

The seas have been tamed...but no one has learned how to advance the science for Sanitation Engineers, so garbage is still picked up the same way, on the one faithful day during the week....

Ray has been cloned, and every city in the world has at least one Bradbury reading poetry and discussing the art of writing....

The members of the Flat Earth Society have finally built a ship they say will fall of the Earth to prove their theory. And it actually falls off the Earth.

Also, Dandelions are given the ability to speak, and at exactly 2 PM, every summer afternoon, they all begin reciting the names of all those in the past that have admired the beauty of a Dandelion....

[This message has been edited by Nard Kordell (edited 12-18-2002).]

Hey...

This is supposed to be like....a little satire on the future... I have the feeling some think this might be .... really serious commentary.....

Even Ray said he wants to be buried, in the future, in a Campbell's Tomato Soup Can... on Mars. Is he Serious ? Or Satirical ?

NK: I may come back for a shot at this later. However, I have often wondered what RB would have to say if he were to revisit an approach or style evident in M. Chronicles, F451, so many s.s. from Golden Apples, R for Rocket, S for Space, and Ill. Man.

What ideas must circulate in his mind about where we are now about to jump off during the coming half century! What might exist unpublished in his archives?

The visionary writing he laid down in the 50's & early 60's has so often proved to be today's reality. Though it was pure imagination vs. sci-tech, who has told it any better? (Robots, virtual reality, rockets, planetary explorations, media, mechanical homes, surveillance, artificial recreation, computers.... all of which have come - its seems so often - exactly from his pages!)