I hope blockchain will improve it. I would hypothesize that the reason people are glued to their technology all the time is because corporations make money from the tech addiction.
Basically every social media and game app makes money from you using it. So what do they do? They make it as addictive as possible without considering the consequences or social implications. There's literally a startup called Dopamine which promises to hack your users brain to make your app more engaging without having it create any more value.
I know by using Steemit over centralized services, no corporation makes money from my internet addiction. The only group (other than witnesses) that makes money is the people who create content of value for me. In Steemit, there's not incentive to create a shallow addicting service because there's no corporation to profit from it.
This is my hope for blockchain but I'm sure it won't be quite as rosy as I make it out to be.