Bradbury Forsees Transportation Changes
Posted on January 14, 2005
According to Ray Bradbury, one of the world's leading science fiction writers and author of such classics as The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451, traffic on our nation's major highways will freeze with gridlock, and only then will people decide to change their driving habits.
Bradbury says in an interview with Green Car Journal, "We're going to be forced into new solutions just as we were forced into space." The Winter 2004 issue of the magazine features an interview with Bradbury on the future of transportation.
Bradbury reminds us that unusual circumstances made for an acceptance of space travel, with America's race for space driven not by the general population's desire to go to the moon, but rather by a reaction to political events during the Cold War.
Similarly, Bradbury expects that a complete rethinking of our transportation system will be driven by reaction to events over the next five to seven years, not by a desire for change.
In the interview, Bradbury says that, simply, "we're going to be forced to look at the automobile and freeways because they're not working."
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