I wish this was wrong, but it really isn't. To contrast though, I would argue that is part of evolution? We just want to do things faster or better? Smartphones solved no problems, but they ushered the digital millenium.

I think most new technologies helped to increase the expectations about what you can do. But overall work did not get reduced. It didn't give me more free time to go fishing, or bird-watching. On the other hand, I got an irreversible dependency on these things. Otherwise I'm are no longer compatible with the World 2.0