No surprise here. It's just the extension of "family life" as we witnessed it a few times last century. Dinner was ready. Everyone grabbed a plate and plopped back onto the couch in front of the TV. The teenagers went to their rooms and watched who knows what. No prayer, no sitting together around a table, nothing.
And then the parents are surprised when their kids get into trouble or become bumerang kids because they can't make it in life.
I think it was Dave Barry who wrote in American Airline Magazine how he was surprised that even older couples in France held hands while walking. So he and his wife did the same. After returning to the US they kept doing that on occasion and noticed people staring at them.
Although there is no guarantee that the folks he saw were married. Well, maybe married but not always to each other ...
The little we need in terms of prescriptions comes via mail, from Kaiser. For HMO members shipping from their pharmacy is free so why go there and stand in line? You still receive an announcement when it's coming but that is a simple phone message. Very convenient for those with a more medieval setup. It probably can be switched to email notification but phone is more convenient.
Text for me would have one advantage. When out of coverage area on my mountain bike I could type a text and then the phone would send it off whenever it achieves an RF link for a sufficient number of seconds. But I can't think of an instance where I couldn't have lived without text messaging. Very occasionally a client needs to get an urgent hold of me and then the phone voice mail notification will beep in my backpack once back into civilization with cell coverage. Occasionally that happens on a hilltop way in the boonies with spectacular views. That's the best kind of "office" one can wish for. A text message would not likely reach me earlier.