I agree with that. What I was thinking about was more so people getting atomized spending so much time on their phones, socializing less, receiving more disinformation, and so on.

Sure it used to take longer to meet up, but time was less compressed, you enjoyed the quiet in the time between moments, the chance to reflect. Sure it sucked people smoked in public places - but at least we were out more together at public places - the trend now is people do things together less in public than ever before.

Those kinds of differences.