Don't Text and Walk

Researchers at the University of Queensland observed 26 people as they walked, both without a smartphone and with one. They noticed that participants who were texting walked more slowly, hunched their shoulders forward, and didn’t walk in a straight line. Although I don't think that you need research to figure out that paying attention to phone services while you are walking will make you do a face plant in a fountain or a telephone poll. I have written a lot of times about the necessity to put phones and other things away when you are doing something important like for example walking on a busy street or catching up on some sleep. It also makes me wonder just how humanity was able to survive all these years leading up to thirty years ago when the Mac can onto the scene. Either way, it has been thirty years of innovation and now it feels like it is the dawn of a different era in terms of computing. What are your thoughts? And please answer not while walking or driving for that matter.