Regular listeners have already surmised this, so I’ll just acknowledge it directly: I am older than dirt. So old, I remember when transistor radios were first introduced. All of a sudden, you could carry tunes in a pocket! It was absolutely amazing!
普通聽眾已經猜到了這一點，所以我直接承認：我比泥土還要老。太老了，我記得晶體管收音機第一次出現的時候。突然之間，你可以把音樂裝在口袋裡了！真是太棒了！
Now don’t get me wrong. At the time, there were plenty of radios small enough to carry, and a lot of people had them, but the world was still solidly in the era when a good proportion of home electronics were actually pieces of furniture. Most radios and all television sets were still found in massive wooden cabinets.
現在不要誤會我的意思。當時，有很多小到可以隨身攜帶的收音機，很多人都擁有它們，但在一個很大比例的家用電子產品實際上是家具的時代，世界仍然很穩固。大多數收音機和所有電視機仍然存在於巨大的木櫃中。
