The experience of "being there" no longer means being together physically; it means interacting with limitless numbers of avatars or bots or other digital interlocutors who, their creators insist, are superior to old-fashioned face-to-face interaction. We have created technologies that so effectively extend our senses that we have started mistrusting the signals our own physical bodies give us. Areas of life that used to be off-limits to technological mediation and manipulation are now saturated by it. And we are changed.