Not so much cell phones/computers, but the connectivity aspect of them. You have to have them anymore to function in society. During my job search, three out of twenty-four employers allowed me to do a paper application. Everyone else instructed me to go online. Any face to face visit was met with some variation of "We'll email you.", "Did you apply online?", or, in some cases, "Our application process is virtual, including interviews."

It is what it is, but it certainly allows for some depersonalization to an extent. If you never see an applicant's face, you have less of a problem dropping them like a hot potato.

I'd be happy to keep more of the "personal touch" in some interactions, but time marches on, I guess.

Do you have a meaningful quote (book, poem, movie) that you remember years later?