I also avoid using a smart phone as my primary cell phone. I also abhor the disgusting habit people have of checking their phone while engaged in "real" convers

I also avoid using a smart phone as my primary cell phone. I also abhor the disgusting habit people have of checking their phone while engaged in "real" conversation. But you're being alarmist. Technology is a tool. We control it, and although losing that control has been a science fiction staple from the start there is no logical reason to believe that I won't be able to take off the glasses whenever I want, just as there is no reason I can't leave the damn phone in my pocket. Addiction is a real thing, but it's not technology's fault. What we build can bring us together just as well as it can pull us apart, but if we let that happen then the problem is us.