| Abstrakt: |
To dramatist Ray Bradbury a toaster is an idea encrusted in chrome. A small idea, perhaps, one involving the relationship of heads to bread, but nevertheless an idea. More complex machines such as automobiles, TV sets, computers and missiles conceal ideas of a more complex sort. "We are surrounded by these machine ideas," says Bradbury, "and we scarcely give them a thought." Yet they influence human lives more directly than intellectuals Plato's forms or Aristotle's universals ever did. "The World of Ray Bradbury," an evening of three one-act plays, opened in Los Angeles, California to generally favorable reviews. Two of the three plays running, The Pedestrian and The Veldt, examine the future effects of two of the most proliferating machines: the automobile and the television set. |
