Susan Sontag, Luddite

I agree with Daniel Johnson. Sontag's disparagement of new media and technology was not a function of her erudition but of her ignorance. Technology can empower writing - and has done so:

All the evidence suggests that television and the Internet, far from rendering serious literature obsolete, have vastly increased its popularity. Indeed, the Internet has brought about a renaissance of some literary genresthe letter (email), the diary (blogs), the little magazine (webzines)that had seemed to be almost endangered species. The advent of narrowcasting has allowed specialized TV channels to multiply, giving artists unprecedented access to their publics. And the insatiable hunger of all mass media for 'content' means that there are now more people earning a living by writing than ever before.