Keep your phone out of meeting rooms...

Hello everybody. My first blog here..hope you enjoy...
Do you recall when, years ago, you were impatient to get home to check on the news on internet and your personal email? Hoping cross fingered that during the connection nobody picked up the phone interrupting your precious modem's communication. When your fastest possibility was a 56K Dial Up modem connection?
Those were the days of desktops, so when not on one, or out of the office, your life was simpler. You could travel home with no calls to disturb you and just enjoying the ride.
Today, in the age of full connectivity you are on line 24x7 (Anytime) whether it's on your laptop, tablet or mobile phone, (Any device) on the car, subway, park, etc (Anywhere), checking business and personal emails, blogs, news, finances, family, friends, or even your health parameters from your newest e-health wearable gadget.
This brings along a new problem: for some reason, people just cannot be disconnected as it looks like that some rare syndrom attacks them - with "lost in space" symptoms - if not connected. Nowadays, its very common to see at a restaurant all the party on the table checking their cell phones simultaneaously.  I've even seen this in couples. Ring a bell if it happened  to you? Question raised immediately would be : Why did they get together anyway?
At work, it can get even worst. No protocol or hardly any respect for it. No matter how hard you address the message "put your mobile devices in silence" there will be that one ring that will disconnect your meeting, making you lose your audience immediately, generating discomfort or even laughs among some attendees.
Good idea is to place a big fishbowl - no water of course - for people to put in their devices until the meeting is over. Works like a charm, most likely your meeting will take less time than expected, people will be more focused on the subject discussed, agreements will be met easier, you'll get more attention from your audience. ... some sort of weird Win-Win situation.
Try to live less dependant from your devices. When was the last time you enjoyed a good reading without getting interrupted? There is a new technology in place that makes you interact with people, live, F2F, and 3D....it's called "Share a coffee with someone else". Think it over, we all deserve better..
Regards,