[michaelvkpdx]

Thanks for the posting. The article is dead-on but it misses one important contributing factor- the rise and mass acceptance of the "disrupt" culture. It's become acceptable, desirable, even lucrative to use Internet technology to jump into lives, right into people's faces.

If most people had realized what they were signing up for when they first slipped in a phone in their pocket- that every greedhead who could figure out an HTML tag would eventually be able to use that phone to interrupt any part of their lives- I think most consumers would have thought twice. Now, they're all addicted to the endorphin buzz of "likes" and are quickly losing the ability to seek for themselves.