Separation anxiety, Man or Cyborg, and the coming Singularity

There is a plethora of technological tools and devices that I use on any given day. My cellphone, my computer, my TV, my Xbox, and my iPod are all devices that I used more-or-less daily.  It is hard to think the removal of any one of these devices will have a profound effect on me because they are in many ways very integrated. For instance, I use my cellphone to queue movies to my NetFlix account which I later watch using my Xbox.  I read books on my iPod that I sink to my computer and my phone so I can take them were ever I go.  Technology has become so integrated that removing any single device is unlikely to have a monumental impact on some of us.  Much like information in the brain is not stored in any single location, but rather is distributed throughout the cortex, so too is the functionality of our technology distributed more or less evenly throughout our devices.  Even without my cellphone, I would still have the means of communicating with people through email, face book, or Skype.  It may be less convenient, but by no means catastrophic, to lose the use of any of these devices by themselves.  Some of us are plugged in to so many ports, so to speak, that the severing of any one connection is, for the most part, innocuous.  The pluripotent nature of modern devices means that the only way to truly disrupt the lifestyle of an individual who is truly plugged in would be to destroy the infrastructure that under-girds mass-communication.  If this were to happen, and we were left to with the ability to communicate only with people within ear-shot, then it would be not just an individual, but the entire industrialized world that would suffer profound technological separation anxiety.  Moreover, I think this has profound implications for the younger generation who are even more wired, and how educators should engage them...