Thanks for responding. It's just that I've lived long enough to take a long view. But there could be something to the notion that "this time" it's different. Our biological evolution suited us to live in groups of about 100 and communicate face-to-face. Bur our ability to evolve socially, that is, without waiting for biological evolution to provide us with the ability to survive in a new environment, means we can survive new environments even as they come at us with increasing frequency. It's because we can cooperate across such large groups. We see the isolation and anger but look at the household item nearest you right now and reflect on the incredible number of people who had to cooperate in order to bring that thing into being and deliver it to you, as well as what it took for you to perceive it as an object ready-to-hand, in the Heideggerian sense. It is just staggering. In the present day, for a large portion of the human species, a cell phone is ready-to-hand.
Who knows what extreme technology will follow it? Brain implants that project data into our field of vision?
The current concern over cell phones also has a moral panic aspect that makes me say, "Oh geez. Here we go again!"