Why Wendell Berry is still not going to buy a computer
While much of the world salivated at the promise of the desktop computer, essayist and cultural critic Wendell Berry was unimpressed.
Three decades after publishing his controversial 1988 essay “Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer” in Harper’s Magazine, Mr. Berry still doesn’t own one. He doesn’t have a smartphone either.
That perspective has lent the octogenarian a unique view of the role of technology in this increasingly digitized world. From behind his typewriter, he has
