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. First published in Harpers magazine in the late 1980s Wendell Berrys Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer challenges the idea circulating then and now that our advanced technological age is a good thing. The volume of reader response to his essay far exceeded any the magazine had seen before. Berry answered his