Look, I know there are going to be a few defensive headphone-wearers out there who claim that they never crank the volume, and only listen to soft Ray LaMontagne or humpback whales, and can hear the traffic all around them.

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In some ways, the current shift in computing is the equivalent of what happened when cars became easy to use and drivers only had to turn the key instead of having to hand-crank the engines.

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