The points made between the pro-print and the pro-tech were well argued. Despite the differences between them it’s clear what the future has in store for literature, and quite frankly the rest of the world. Regardless of which side you favor it’s in your best interest to understand the internet and become proficient internet user, or you very well may become just as obsolete as the print you favor.
The points made by Kenneth Goldsmith on critical view of the internet coming from those people who had grown up only having television is, in my experience, a stunningly accurate argument. As Goldsmith said “It’s common for people to pick up everything they know about a previous medium and throw it at a newer one”. Parents scold the youth as they are so invested in their smartphones, while it’s the parents who are at a disadvantage. Saienni has experienced this disadvantage in full effect of this disadvantage. Saienni’s purist stance on poetry and print is to blame. She says “I’ve gone through rigorous poetry workshops, spent hours counting beats for sonnets, sweated through a live poetry reading for a crowd of about 40.” and you would think she would be capable of work like R.M. Drake, but can’t acquire the kind of distribution, and success that the internet offers. The rejection of the new medium is the bottleneck at which success is stopped for those who can’t seem to accept the current way of media.
Literature & the Internet 