Eyesight pollution in 2010s

Back in the 70s and 80s, when mobile phones were not available or common, I could enjoy reading in my railway/ bus trips with ease. These days, there is much noise pollution in the train cabinets with noises from TV and people talking over the phones. In HK, from time to time, there are people talking with themselves loudly due to mental disorder. Today, I suffer from another distraction. I found passengers close to me moving around with the fingers writing on their smartphones. Imagine: some people close to you moving with their figures actively wthin your immediate eyesight, while you are standing in the cabinet holding a journal to read.... so, this is another form of pollution, let's call that eyesight pollution,

No wonder it is not easy for young people these to develop deep level thinking and to concentrate on examining issues; the envirronment is so noisy and distracting. Those who were born in the 50s and 60s or even 70s would know how the environment of learning has changed...