The way we live, work, play, and communicate today is so tech dependent that it demands we always be on our devices as we go through our daily routines. Understanding why this is the case doesn't take too much analysis. In the U.S. alone, over 250 million adults own smartphones, with an average daily usage time of around 4.5 hours. The picture becomes even clearer when you zoom out to a global scale to factor in the 6.9 billion smartphone users, 47.1 percent of private households that own a PC, and 5.3 billion active internet users.