Jonathan Haidt

So let me actually start in 1990, because you have to understand how we all got tricked into this.

So if we go back to 1990, there was no internet.

Nobody knew what the internet was.

So the internet arrives around 1994, 1995.

And it's amazing.

It's like God said, hey, do you want to know anything instantly?

I still remember how exciting it was.

So the internet was amazing.

And the millennials were teenagers at the time.

They were going through puberty.

And they...

charged onto it, and they made it their own, and they found all kinds of ways to do things.

And they started internet companies, and they're a creative, successful generation.

Also, the Berlin Wall fell just before that, and democracy is ascendant in the 90s.

And we're thinking, democracy, its best friend is the internet.

How could a dictator ever keep it out?

Good luck, China, keeping up the internet.

So we were all super optimistic.

Once you get the smartphone, 2007, now you start getting the App Store and apps, you get...

Uber.