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There's definitely value in not constantly being tethered to a device reminding you how many steps you've taken, e-mails, etc. Also I'm reminded me of a quote:
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
It's very popular to call humans some variant of this, and while it's correct, it also implies that humans are no longer apes. They are.
Plot twist: Adam's earthlings were probably mostly Golgafrinchans.
well they were entirely made up of account executives, insurance salesmen, and management consultants so I think it's still fair to call them "ape-descended"