My family tells a story about a distant great^n uncle of mine, who married a Cherokee woman. She had grown up without tables and chairs, as you might imagine, and was more comfortable squatting than sitting. Of course, my uncle wanted his wife to be at the dinner table with him. So he built a stool of such height that she could squat on it and be roughly eye level with her European-descendant family members sitting around the table. And they lived happily ever after.

I like to tell that story any time someone claims that technology pushes people apart rather than bringing them together.