> Now I wonder at all of the people holding up their
> phones to record and photograph events.

There seems to be an entire generation who can't experience things by looking at them directly, but only through their viewfinders. This was first observed (not by me) three or four decades ago in Disneyland, but now seems to include meals in restaurants, not just fake maharajas' palaces which look more like the real thing than the actual real thing.*

* If you know what I was reading, please speak up: the cat ate my indexing cards.