What authors of the past do you think would have embraced the Internet?

Shakespeare wrote for the masses of his day. The groundlings who frequented the theater were street people, essentially. I believe he would have written soaps and raps and all sorts of experiments on Youtube. At the same time, he wrote as he did, in many cases, to kiss a little royal behind, so he's be an excellent advertising man or plitical lobbyist. Don't forget, the stories in his works were not original. Most are historically accurate to at least some extent (Romeo and Juliet are buried in Varoa. and thousands of tourists visit their graves every year. He was very big on getting the largest crowds possible, which almost requires the Internet!

Jules Verne would have gone nuts for CGI special effects. Dickens would probably have written soaps and/or episodes of one or another of the Law and Order franchise.

American writers of the South would have been amazing as Internet writers, or even as bloggers. Faulkner could have taken his best and worst to the Net and argued with everyones responses. Flannery O'Connor might have hired Tim Burton to bring her ideas to the screen.

I need to stop this conjecturing, or I could go on all night. There are delicious scenarios running around inside my head, and I hope to dream of all these amazing writers in the Electronic Age!

yeah i agree
but then again they lived in a different tiem in which they had too much free time on their hands and not much to do except htink think and think more
but the internet is a fact of life now and no one can run away with it.. liek u said abt Arthur C clark
happy lotting and have a nice day