I can’t either. That dates back to me being a kid before the dawn of the smartphone. It doesn’t need to be a phone — I’ll play guitar while watching TV or work on a hobby coding project. I just need something to do with my hands.

I learned as an adult I have ADHD. I’m high functioning so I never got tested as a kid, but it’s 100% a condition I always had. It made a lot of aspects of my life since childhood make sense.

I think you're thinking of a different thing, which is specifically in the context of that technology reaching a simple "it just works" state. People no longer need to fiddle with it, and from that, never learn how it works. First time I heard of it was 2013 [0], and have been experiencing it with some of our recent hires over the past few years.

[0] http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...