Agreed, and I think in doing so we’re also kind of gradually killing creativity on a societal scale in a systemic way. It’s like a slow suffocation.

You can see how this changes the way people write, the way contemporary authors set scenes, recount details, make observations, etc.

Difficult to make compelling, sustained observations, which birth connections and lead to unexpected and interesting thoughts, when one is habituated to spending massive amounts of waking life on a smartphone and leaves no space for quiet, for boredom, and for contemplation.