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I often half-joke that Steve Jobs ruined our society by inventing the iPhone. He made the internet accessible to everyone by exchanging a mouse and keyboard for sausage fingers. Every Joe-lunchbucket can spread their opinions by smearing it on a screen, like a fingerpainting painted with raw stupidity.
(I know this is all flawed; you don't have to tell me. Steve Jobs didn't invent the iPhone. And if it wasn't Apple, then some other company would have invented a similar device.)
Either way, forcing people to sit down at a desktop/laptop to access the internet added a slight barrier that demanded some modicum of competence. That's been gone for 15+ years now, and look where things are at.