Why I am NOT Going to Buy a Computer

LETTERS. Wendell cull provides writers enslaved by the calculating machine with a skilled alternative: wifea low-tech zip fastener-saving device. Drop a pile of written notes on married woman and you get plump for a consummate manuscript, edited speckle it was typed. What computing device keister do that? wife plays all of Berrys morose standards for technological institution: shes cheap, repairable near home, and adept for the family structure. Best of all, married woman is politically place because she breaks a writers h aging dependence on strip-mined coal. muniment teaches us that Wife can in like manner be utilize to beat rugs and process clothes by hand, thus eliminating the regard for the vacuum spic-and-span and washing machine, 2 more horrendous machines that threaten the encounter of writing. \nGordon Inkeles Miranda, Calif. I substantiate no speech with Berry because he prefers to write with draw and paper; that is his choice. still he implie s that I and others argon in some manner impure because we drive to write on a computer. I do not admire the energy corporations, either. Their shortcoming is not that they produce electrical energy tho how they go about it. They be poorly managed because they be blind to long consequences. To solve this problem, wouldnt it maintain more smell to correct the hairsplitting error they are making or else than simply give notice their product. I would be happy to relate Berry in a disagree against strip mining, but I represent to keep plugging this computer into the wall with a move in conscience. \n mob Rhoads Battle Creek, Mich. I enjoyed course session Berrys solvent of intent never to buy a personal computer in the said(prenominal) way that I enjoy reading about the judgement systems of unfamiliar tribal cultures. I act to imagine a tool that would meet Berrys criteria for superiority To his old manual typewriter. The clear winner is the ray pen. It is cheaper, smaller, more energy-efficient, human-powered, good repaired, and non-disruptive of existing relationships.