Touch

How valuable is human touch?

What is touch starvation? Could robots help to rehabilitate broken souls?

Human Premium

Personalisation of real human connection will have a premium in the near future, before the web of trust is fully engineered and adopted.

Questions

What is the most important question this topic raises that current discourse tends to avoid or understate?

• Which assumption in the standard framing of this topic is most likely to be wrong in a 5-year horizon?
• How does the DePIN or agent-native lens change what matters most about this topic?
• Which first principle, if violated, would make the analysis of this topic fundamentally incorrect?