Devices at dinner:

We often make fun of other tables in restaurants where all or nearly all of the people are staring at their devices.  In the last week, I've had the opportunity to sit at some of those tables (the "nearly all") of device users.  I hadn't known this before, but when the people actually look up and vocalize, it is almost always in response to something on the screen, not to something someone else has said.  Person A may say something, and shortly after, person B says something - not in reply to, or on the same subject as, Person A's comment, but as a response to what he was looking at.  So sad.