I do, and I have the notebooks full of data, calculations, etcetera to prove it.
Now, do you remember life before electricity or running water? Can you recall outhouses, and having a central fireplace for your cooking and home heating? It’s pretty much the same thing. I am sure that the current backlash against smartphones now is similar to the backlash against many other societal evolutions.
When TV could spread information worldwide in real-time, it was demonized as people clung to their newspapers with literally yesterday’s news. And within my lifetime, it was thought that nobody would ever have a use or desire for a computer in their home. only the military and major universities.
Right now, society is changing with technology once again. We did it with the printing press, the telephone… pretty much every major advance in the dissemination of information. And, of course, there will be many who feel that evolution means devolution, and there will be a period of awkwardness (and rudenss) as society adapts to a new way of doing things.
Pretty soon, smartphones will be like indoor plumbing and electric lights; just another fact of life, so seamlessly integrated that we forget there was a time when they didn’t exist.