My office overlooks my yard and the street, where there is a dedicated bike path. Most people, like 80% are "checking" their phones as they walk or even as they ride their bicycles! I see this on beautiful spring/summer days when the skies here are alive with birds of all kinds. My neighbours have great gardens, there are squirrels and cats and dogs out for a walk. The phoneheads, degraded addicts as they are, literally see or hear none of these, intent as they are on doing whatever the hell it is that they are doing! It's a sickness, an actual evil.

I actually do really like my phone and find it tremendously useful for: navigation, info on the fly, and when called for, like a long bus ride, as a distraction, inter alia. I am fully aware of all the downsides and struggle against them as much as possible.

Sometimes I feel like stopping people and declaring, "It's a beautiful day and the world is alive all around you. What the fuck are you looking at that's more interesting than that?"

I don't of course as I would only get anger or genuine confusion, or fear, "Is this guy crazy?".