"Digital Isolation"

A little while back, I saw a speech on youtube called, "Future Minds" by Richard Watson where he discussed how technology is affecting our minds. He said things like digital technology is preventing us from thinking deeply and therefore taking away from our creativity and originality in our ideas. Now since it was particularly my generation (and younger) that he was talking about, of course I didn't agree one bit. I'm still telling myself "Holy crap, technology is amazing!" But as the speech went on, there were things where I couldn't help but agree, and that's when I found the speech rather interesting. 

There was one part where he explained what he calls "digital isolation". I looked it up on google, and all I got were results for isolators inside digital devices.. So apparently this word is just something that Watson made up. He pointed out that technology has greatly increased our connectivity (cellphones, internet, etc), but then we're never alone. He said that when we're alone is the time we take to sit and think deeply about things, but then he said, "ironically, this connectivity means that we tend to be alone even when we're together." Basically, to Watson, digital isolation is when people are together, but most or all of them are on their own digital devices. Probably the worst definition, but the best I could come up with. An example he used was seeing young couples go out to dinner together for an anniversary or something, but then spend the entire time texting. As soon as I heard that, I was like "THATS SO TRUE". He also mentioned groups of young people being together, but each being on their own digital device of some sort. As soon as I heard him say that I imagined times like when I was in high school, and my friends and I would be sitting in class. One person would be browsing his ipod, another would be texting, another would be playing games on an iphone, and another would have a nintendo ds or a psp. I have seen so many of situations similar to this. I don't even know how many times I've been standing in a circle with friends and most of them would have their phones out (for whatever reason), and then somebody will say, "Everyone has their phones out... I'm gonna take mine out too."

After watching that speech, I have noticed Watson's "digital isolation" every single time I've been with my friends. The whole thing on digital isolation was just something random I wanted to point out because that part of the speech wasn't as important as the rest of it.
If curious, the entire thing can be seen below. (It's pretty long though.)