Anna said, “Must they have a reason?” “No, not if they’re insane, no,” said Juliet. “In that case no reasons are necessary.” - Ray Bradbury

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

There they go, off to Venus, just for the ride, thinking that they will find a planet like a seer's crystal, in which to read a miraculous future. What they'll find, instead, is the somewhat shopworn image of themselves. Mars is a mirror, not a crystal.

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.