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How often do we wish more things were handmade? Oh, we talk about that all the time, don’t we? ‘I wish it was like the old days; I wish things had that human touch.’ But that’s not true.

There are more handmade things now than there have ever been in the history of the world. Everything is handmade. I know. I have been there. I have seen the workers laying in parts thinner than human hair, one after another after another. Everything is handmade.

— “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” as adapted for This American Life. Please listen to this.