Fictional prophesy approaches reality.
Watching CBS' Sunday Morning, there was the usual piece on the terror occurring in the streets of a lot of our cities. Then there began a series of pieces on social distancing in light of Covid-19. One was on the use of plexiglass barriers in stores and even in a day care to separate napping children. And the use of smart phones to call up menus and order meals which are served behind barriers. Now it is a zoom cocktail party. I crave real personal interaction. I know that a lot of young people are more comfortable with virtual contact preferring to text even over a phone call, but I like being in the same space with others.
I've been thinking that we may be approaching the world of Solaria portrayed in Issac Asimov's The Naked Sun. This paragraph from Wikipedia says it well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun
Social distancing
Asimov portrays in The Naked Sun a world focused on avoiding contact with other people. The Solarians use social distancing, and interact with each other largely through technology. They live far from each other, spread out across a sparsely populated planet. Communication is frequent, but it is "viewing" of a transmitted image. To make a baby, which is infrequent, requires that a male and female do it the traditional way, but old-fashioned, in-person sex is a nasty chore. A character remarks that to be in the same room with another person is "most unpleasant.... I feel strongly as though something slimy were about to touch me."[3]:113 A doctor has to "get hardened" to it.[3]:136