Cook sets the central thesis of his speech. After acknowledging Silicon Valley's revolutionary inventions — from the Hewlett-Packard oscillator to the iPhone — he pivots to the darker side. He argues that our problems in technology, politics, and everywhere else are fundamentally human problems. From the Garden of Eden to today, it's our humanity that created the mess, and it's our humanity that will have to get us out. Technology is just an amplifier of who we already are.