Prevention is not the issue. It is the development of reactive thought patterns that result in being distracted too frequently. It's hard to think when you're used to not thinking at all.

It doesn't, really. It's just a background sense of being connected with an umbilical. Without a smartphone, no one can reach me, I don't have a map, a camera, music, distractions. Geez, to think people used to be always like that! If something goes "wrong" I might have to improvise--scary! Interact with people, take responsibility.

And there is the fact they are tracking the shit out of you, and lying about it.