People are going to look back on cellphones and the swapping from generally in person interaction to screen based interaction as one of the single most disrupti

People are going to look back on cellphones and the swapping from generally in person interaction to screen based interaction as one of the single most disruptive and harmful changes to society. Everything from lost conversational ability, to decline in healthy dating, to the the proportion of consumption that is unhealthy social media, to loneliness, to internet addiction, to educational skill and reading comprehension, attention span, mental health. Look at almost any graph of negative effect on society (10x if you look just at teenagers) and just about everything fell off a cliff beginning around 2012 or so with the rise of the smart phone. It's crazy how widespread it's effects have been.