Hard to believe but apparently science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury, known for some of his pretty far out predictions of the future, doesn’t think much of the Web. More specifically, he says “It’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere” in speaking of our dependence on the Internet. He laments that the Web contributes to depersonalizing relationships. I must be an old codger like the 90-year old author (whose “Fahrenheit 451″ is one of my favorite fictional books of all time)…despite working multiple careers that push to advance technology (on the Internet), I still actually dislike it for exactly that reason. In the same week that Shaq finds out that he’s been traded to Cleveland because of a tweet, I’d say that our ability to get useless information and maintain superficial friendships based on SMS has surpassed our own abilities to want to create nurturing relationships with people around us. More here…