I meant silicon valley. Not as a geographic place these days but as a state of mind, specifically harkening to the classic 1995 essay, The Californian Ideology by Barbrook. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology

The question is what if you take that and press the play button for 25 years. You get the nth order derivative; a mix of amplification of the tangible and a dampening of the aspirational under a constantly churning framework of the ideological.

Or to put it in less academic and more literary terms, the reality must die and the dream cannot be born and in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

We, like all generations are tasked with building our grandparents dreams and our grandchildrens future. That's the kind of orientation I think we need more of to drive how we choose to use our time.

Because that time is right now