Isaac Asimov wrote many years ago of a planet where the population was sparse, and lived in personal hideaways, communicating by a cross between television and the internet. It is amazing how many of the problems and issues of reduced human contact he noted in the development of the story line.

Individual people vary in their need for interaction, but society as a whole needs to stop reducing the OPPORTUNITIES. (The worst offenders are those who have control over various items in our lives....that is, for example, those who make decisions about configuration of supermarket counters, and isolate themselves 5 or 6 layers from anyone who wants to question the wisdom of the design...(which often amounts to 'lowest bid')