I even remember in college, a big moment is when I instant-messaged my apartment-mate instead of just walking over to his room to talk to him.  It hit me that things were changing in a weird way.

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Examples of culture being downstream from technology?

For sure, the screen thing. If we didn't have the (smartphone) tech, we would not, as a culture, be constantly staring at the little device that sucks up so much of our life.

Just yesterday I was at a tire repair place, and had to stay in the waiting room a while. And EVERYONE else was on their phone the entire time. I took off and walked around the area a bit (Walmart, McDonalds). 

It feels so wrong that there's no more spontaneous conversation or anything in places like this anymore.

