He also questions the viability of the internets "as a political medium." Of course he does. I mean, why wouldn’t you question the viability of something you’ve never used before? Obviously, the reason you’re not using it is because it’s crap. If it weren’t crap, you’d be magically compelled beyond your own stubborn ignorance to use it.
The point of internet use having reached critical mass, having passed the threshold at which the number of people using the internet in our society for culturally relevant purposes, was reached long ago. At this time, people who are going on about not using the internet or email don’t look cool, by virtue of resistance to succumbing to every passing fad, but look scarily detached from modernity.
Particularly to those of us who engage in a vibrant exchange of ideas every day via the internet, someone whose job involves being on top of new information and ideas but refuses to get on the information superhighway, especially those who refuse yet also feel obliged to criticize, are contemptible specimens. Members of the media, social and religious leaders, and politicians who don’t spend their time on the internet simply don’t, can’t, know what’s really happening in contemporary American political thought. They’re dinosaurs—and we all know what happened to them.
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