I thought the author had to be around 25 years old...I looked him up, and he was born in 1958. Weird. Maybe he’s writing for a younger audience...the type that wouldn’t realize we didn’t have cell phones 100 years ago?
Or he’s a liberal.
My eight year old son saw a row of books in my father’s library and asked what they were. “They’re encyclopedias.”
“What do you do with them?”
“You can look stuff up with.”
“Why didn’t he use Google or Wikipedia?”
“That didn’t exist when I was your age.”