People watching is dead

Those of us not buried in our cell phones may have noticed that people are no longer watching people. It's the demise of civilized society as we once knew it, those of us fortunate enough to have experienced life before cells. Look at any group or gathering and someone is bound to be looking down at some gadget. Can't we just be together without holding a phone or having it on the table? I have a standard reply now when my children ask when I'm getting a cell phone: When pigs fly.