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Here’s the thing: before the iPod Touch there was no good way to Google or Wikipedia whatever you wanted over dinner at a national chain or a local coffee house. Steve Jobs is largely responsible for the iPod Touch.

Seriously. Think about that.

And if you have never Googled or Wikipediaed in a Wifi hotspot, have been in the presence of someone who has done so and you thought it was awesome but still didn’t get a smartphone, or have never yourself Googled or Wikipediaed or were in the presence of someone who did but you thought it was dumb/and/or/ostentatious/and/or/annoying: you are the one who doesn’t understand that having a large subset of all of human knowledge at your fingertips is, in fact, awesome in the truest definition of the term.

If you aren’t amazed by what it takes to make it possible to Google something, anything, from an Applebee’s in Minot, ND (besides the fact there are Applebee’s in Minot and New York) you are ignorant and should do something to change that fact. If you are amazed but don’t care, you are cynical and should do something to change that fact.