Do they come up with excuses in the middle of a conversation to pull out their smart phone -- something like "let me jot something you said down so I don't forget it, " and then sneak a look at all their messages?
He now uses his iPhone's notebook app to jotdown phrases that float into his head, because he couldn't read the handwriting in the many notebooks he filled over the years.
Yet the person making these statements will likely be addicted to his iPod, wearing a T-shirt and blue jeans, and using Microsoft Word to jotdown his "cultural" statements on his Intel-based PC, with some Google searches on the Internet here and there interrupting his composition.