What Silicon Valley Got Wrong About Disconnection — and What Tokyo's Spa Culture Got Right
American tech companies have spent billions attempting to solve the digital wellness crisis with apps, subscriptions, and curated retreats — and the results have been largely unconvincing. Tokyo's traditional spa culture, by contrast, has never needed a strategy for disconnection because technology was never invited into the room to begin with. The contrast reveals something important about the difference between managing a problem and never creating it.