Assessing Technology Articles

Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer
by: Wendell Berry

Authoritative Source:
The author Wendel Berry is a poet, essayist, farmer, and novelist. He not only used to be a professor of english at the university of of Kentucky but has also published over 40 books.

The main points of his article is his 3 reason why he believes that owning computers is not for him, not necessarily a bad idea, just not for him.
-He relates that by owning a computer it uses energy that is powered by coal, which in the end hurts the planet he lives in and that, how can one have that on their conscience when trying to write.
-His second point is saying that by owning a computer it will cost him more work,money, time that what he is used to. It is believed by him that a new inovation should cost less that the previous item, in this case a pencil.
-Lastly, he argues that the computer can do no more than what a pencil can do. They both accomplish the same task and that is writing a story.

The source is valid although, bias because the author seemed never to have used a computer therefore leaving out many positive outocomes of the computer such as efficiency.