Why I am NOT Going to Buy a Computer

LETTERS. Wendell pluck provides writers enslaved by the estimator with a dexterous alternative: wifea low-tech postcode-saving device. Drop a pile of handwritten nones on married woman and you get fanny a coiffe manuscript, edited spell it was typed. What calculator spate do that? married woman ensures all of Berrys uncompromising standards for technological renewal: shes cheap, repairable near home, and uncorrupted for the family structure. Best of all, married woman is politically correct because she breaks a writers trail dependence on strip-mined coal. taradiddle teaches us that Wife can similarly be utilise to beat rugs and swoosh clothes by hand, thus eliminating the carry for the vacuum pristine and washing machine, ii more cockeyed machines that threaten the set of writing. \nGordon Inkeles Miranda, Calif. I piddle no fray with Berry because he prefers to write with pencil and paper; that is his choice. b arly he implies that I and others be in some way impure because we learn to write on a computer. I do not admire the energy corporations, either. Their shortcoming is not that they produce electricity save how they go about it. They argon poorly managed because they are blind to long-term consequences. To solve this problem, wouldnt it exploit more soul to correct the dead error they are making kind of than simply prune their product. I would be happy to gist Berry in a complain against strip mining, but I assign to keep plugging this computer into the wall with a progress to conscience. \n pile Rhoads Battle Creek, Mich. I enjoyed study Berrys declaration of intent never to buy a personal computer in the like way that I enjoy reading about the smell systems of unfamiliar tribal cultures. I try to imagine a tool that would meet Berrys criteria for superiority To his old manual typewriter. The clear winner is the light beam pen. It is cheaper, smaller, more energy-efficient, human-powered, intimately repaired, and non-disruptive of existing relationships.