There was one young man at a WWDC, who had his head buried in his phone while on the escalator. He reached the end of the escalator and just stopped where he was. All of us behind him on the escalator were yelling at him not to stop. I don't know how no one got hurt or killed, but we all somehow got around him. As I passed him, he seemed to not have noticed anything at all.

Not remotely comparable...Totally incomparable.

Note the above quote: "Prolonged stretches of being unable to see the real world, invoking feels of fear, anxiety, and uncertainty." Haven't we seen quite a few articles recently about how social media tends to produce feelings like that? They are very different things, but there are certain similarities.