I don't take issue with your assessment of what could be "healthy", but I'm talking about what people engage in. And realtime is, as you noted, behavior-alterin

I don't take issue with your assessment of what could be "healthy", but I'm talking about what people engage in. And realtime is, as you noted, behavior-altering. It engenders an "incessant need". That's real. That we don't want it to be so doesn't change it from being real. And the fact that the academically minded want to minimize it is of little importance to the 15 year old girls gossiping about each other. Or the 23 year old dudes trading sports clap backs. Or, or, or... So yeah. My opinion on the role of constant contact in a healthy society notwithstanding, there is a consumer hunger for it and while I can see it contracting, I can't see it ever going away to a point that it shouldn't be a design priority.