I have the same experience. Once asked to come along shopping. All the other person did was looking at that phone. I wondered why my company was needed.

The last dinner with a group was like your experience. The entire group except me and someone else was watching the phone.

I find it very cool what you did, the kind of thing everyone would laugh at if seen in a film.

The time will come when the phone will be gone, same with the power. I wonder how all those people will survive. At the same time, I also wonder why they all complain about being lonely, no one to talk to, no good talk and more of the blah blah. I have no clue what they do with the thing but it can't be connecting with people.