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What you need to grasp is, Bradbury's problem isn't *nostalgia*, it's disappointment. Here's a man, born near the turn of *last* century who's spent much of his life dreaming and writing about space exploration, who grew up fully expecting that by the time he was 50, people would be living on Mars, and here he is nearly 90, and instead, technology allows us to play World of Warcraft and post pictures of our infants spitting up on Facebook.
He doesn't dislike cars because they're not horses, he dislikes them because they're not spaceships.
Yes, he's missing the many ways technology enhances our lives on a daily basis, but I don't blame him for being upset about it.
And he's a magnificent writer - if you pass him by just because you don't agree with him about modern technology, you're doing yourself a disservice.
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