> Perhaps that would go away if our society experienced a cataclysm disabling all the smart devices out there.
Except this can't happen without other catastrophic consequences, so maybe we should instead learn to deal with it.
Except this can't happen without other catastrophic consequences, so maybe we should instead learn to deal with it.
But I would mention that most people were illiterate in most societies known as civilizations (ancient Greece, etc). Mass literacy is a society phenomenon - coming out of industrial societies.
The thing were have now, however, isn't so much illiteracy as pathological scattering of attention. Perhaps that would go away if our society experienced a cataclysm disabling all the smart devices out there.