If the trend moves towards a total societal reliance on smartphones as tools of everyday life, and a couple decades down the path it becomes impossible to opt out while still retaining a normal lifestyle and career, then it matters. It matters even more so that the average person is making this push, because, as you bring up, it's ripe for exploit (e.g. recent events in China with state-sponsored malware installed on phones).

I think you're missing my point. This is not a tech problem. It's a people problem.

The most dystopian tools ever imagined can be perfectly harmless if the people using them don't want to use them for dystopian purposes.

It's only moving towards a dystopy because people don't care or know enough. That's what has to be fixed.

>The average person has decided that life is better for him like this...

Indeed, I do. You want to track the stores I drive by and what websites I visit? In exchange I can have real-time commnuication with friends all over the world without having to align scheduled to make phone calls of varying connection quality, I can get step by step directions on how to do just about anything including get from point A to B, I can take photos and share them, I can read, I can consume video and audio, I can track my macros, I can get immediate weather alerts, track ODB-II data for my car, get curated news, get raw news, augment my memory with drive/dropbox/evernote, I can track my finances? DEAL!

More likely, we all got manipulated into thinking it’s better.