Parents complaining about kids being distracted by reading in the nineties shows you that people are full of it when they blame devices for everything. I blame adults! (im 43)
This was probably the start of the marriage issues that plagued Pippa and Michael during 1994, coming to a head later in the year when they temporarily separated.
1994 was a good "cool down" year. Sandwiched between the emotional 1993 and the High Octane 1995. Dramatic stuff happened only no births, deaths, marriages this year.