My husband's favorite author is Wendell Berry. Periodically, he will ask me to read an excerpt from one of his books or an essay. On Saturday, he asked me to read this essay: http://home.btconnect.com/tipiglen/berrynot.html The essay is titled "Why I am NOT going to buy a Computer". Though you may disagree with his decision to not buy a computer, his 9 standards of whether or not to purchase a technological innovation are worthy of contemplation. My favorite is number 9. I think the computer and social networking often hinder our relationships and our ability to be present mind, soul, and body with the ones around us. We can be so distracted by what we may (or may not be) missing on the world wide web that we don't pay attention to what's right in front of us. I often mention the book Distracted and the ideas that Maggie Jackson articulated which I'd already been feeling about how distracted we are because of all of the technol...