He traces the roots of the current moment back to Silicon Valley. He grew up there. He knew Steve Jobs through his brother. The father of one of his friends founded Adobe. He went to Stanford with future tech leaders.“They were trying to make the world a better place,” he said. “But what has happened?”The result, he argues, is a culture drowning in digital connectivity but starved of real connection. “We’re less social, more tribal,” he said. “We’ve saddled the nexat generation with devices that unintentionally make us all worse. And we must solve this.