Ray Bradbury made his career on being a man of the future. His science fiction set the tone of the future. At 84, he now seems firmly rooted in the past. Bradbury is famously anachronistic, a science-fiction writer who has never driven a car or used a computer. “I’ve got three typewriters,” he will later tell me. “I don’t need a computer.” When I call, his line is busy, indicating an absence of call waiting.”