Elevator pitches are out...Thumbs are in...Silence is golden...Really?

Will it be the next generation that inherits a debilitating disease caused by smart devices spreading across the globe?  I am going to call the new disease Smart Device Head-hang (SDH).  If you don’t believe me look around.  Oh?  You can’t!   That is my point your head is hanging over your smart devices (iPhones, PDA’s, Kindles, iPads, Droids and Androids, etc.).  The top of our spines will curve downward from the shoulder after eons of hanging our heads down looking at our smart devices.  I am guilty too for having the same posture when I should be paying attention to the real world.  I am guilty of missing the world around me while I text, email, tweet, and like on all the different social networking media and most of us have every social App including LinkedIn which we have to have right?  Come on people how important can those BTW, OMG, LOL and :-) text messages be and what about updating our status or checking in are they really helpful?  Has anyone ever come up to you and said, “Hey, I just read that you checked-in at the same place I am and I wanted to introduce myself and have dinner with you.”, yeah right?  Will the world end if you miss one call, text, tweet or email?  If the world ended would you have noticed?  What would your Facebook status include or check-in location be?  Would you have anything to “Tweet” home about?  We are all going to look up someday and realize that we have wasted so much time communicating back and forth with a computer instead of real people on the other end of the Internet and those right next to us.  Something else to think about is that in 1000 years human beings could evolve into mouth-less creatures with eight more fingers and two more thumbs to handle multiple devices and keyboards.  We hardly talk to each other using our vocal cords anymore, we let our thumbs do the talking for us and our thumbs are dumb. You should read what they type.  We are the greatest thinkers and innovators of the modern era yet we created the smallest keyboards for the shortest, thickest and biggest finger on our hand, though it’s really not called a finger.  It is far too easy and comfortable being mean to one another knowing we’re separated by clouds, space and reality.  What happened to the real art of “social engineering”?