Housing issues, income disparity, strained public institutions ... heck, even the commute is piling up quicker than anticipated.

This week we host an author who is taking his documentary filmmaking and interview skills into book form with Cary McClelland's 'Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley.'

Silicon City is a book of interviews - providing more than 100 angles on a story that can seem overwhelming. A zeitgeist that feels almost suffocating in its complexity - and in the decades it took for our society to land in this spot.