“It’s hard to miss the parallel to the 1960s — the last time a generation discovered psychedelics at the exact moment society was coming apart around them, and technology was accelerating in leaps nobody could fully comprehend.
But it also raises the question: Which 1960s are we returning to? The therapeutic ’60s, when Sandoz Laboratories distributed LSD-25 free to researchers and a thousand papers on its psychiatric benefits were published before the door slammed shut? The recreational ’60s, when author Ken Kesey hosted LSD-soaked parties around San Francisco known as “Acid Tests”? Or some third ’60s most people have forgotten — the one I argue actually mattered. It is the ’60s whose absence, more than anything else, explains what is wrong with Silicon Valley today.”
https://sfstandard.com/2026/10/13/silicon-valley-psychedelics-sixties-genius/