Today you consider a phone to be infinitely distracting because you haven’t experienced yet the next engrossing medium, we put our phones in our pockets occasionally today but perhaps tomorrow we just won’t take our iQuest3 thingys off our faces between sunrise and bedtime.
Someone will be well placed to make your argument - well at least you put your phone away at some point!
The socially challenging bit is the difference not the magnitude I think.
That's true up to a point, but digital media really is different from analog media which cannot be updated dynamically. That's the difference, I think.
(And, yes, more and more people are putting away the phone because they realize how intrusive it is in terms of time spent doomscrolling, etc.)
Someone will be well placed to make your argument - well at least you put your phone away at some point!
The socially challenging bit is the difference not the magnitude I think.