Why i am not going to buy a computer: essays, paperback/wendell berry

A brief meditation on the role of technology in his own life and how it has changed the landscape of the United States from Americas greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living ( Chicago Tribune ).

A number of people, by now, have told me that I could greatly improve things by buying a computer.

My answer is that I am not going to do it.

I have several reasons, and they are good ones.

Wendell Berry first challenged the idea that our advanced technological age is a good thing when he penned Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer in the late 1980s for Harpers Magazine , galvanizing a critical reaction eclipsing any the magazine had seen before.

He followed by responding with Feminism, the Body, and the Machine.

Both essays are collected in one short volume for the first time.

About author(s): WENDELL BERRY is an essayist, novelist, and poet.

In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.

He lives with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Henry County, Kentucky.