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Peter Leyden

Thought leader on AI, new technologies, and the future

The Great Progression: 2025-2050, Leyden’s new series of essays and interviews for Freethink Voices, roughs out a new grand narrative of our historic opportunity to harness AI and other transformative technologies to drive progress, reinvent America, and make a much better world.

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A man in a blue suit gives a presentation titled "The Great Progression 2025-2050" with a colorful graphic background.
A graphic with the title "The New Potential For Abundance" shows icons for education, wind energy, and healthcare, labeled "Abundant Education," "Abundant Energy," and "Abundant Healthcare.
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The missing tech case for how we create an era of abundance
AI and other new technologies could make things that are costly and scarce today, cheap and abundant for all tomorrow.
A timeline titled "The 80 Year Cycle of American Reinvention" shows portraits of Washington, Lincoln, FDR, and a silhouette with a question mark, marking years 1785, 1865, 1945, and 2025.
History
Why America reinvents itself every 80 years — and is doing so again
Three separate theories help explain why America enters a period of great progress every 80 years — and why another is coming soon.
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History
What a historian in 2100 might say about Trump’s America
President Donald Trump might clear the way for the building of 21st-century systems and open up the political space for a new way forward.
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AI
Kevin Kelly points a new way forward into the Age of AI
One of the most original and optimistic thinkers in America helps build out some big through lines on what’s possible with AI in the next 25 years.
Graph depicting the transition from "The Old World is Dying" to "The New One Struggles to Be Born" during the 1945-1970 post-WWII boom, with "JFK Was Here" marked in the mid-20th century area.
History
America is going through its every-80-year reinvention
Futurist Peter Leyden finds parallels between America in 2025 and at three pivotal points in its history, each 80 years before the last.
Peter Leyden, wearing a blue suit and glasses, speaks and gestures on a stage about the Great Progression to a large audience clad in white.
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A dozen reasons to read Peter Leyden at this critical juncture in history
To truly understand our historic moment, you need a comprehensive, big-picture, long-term perspective that deeply understands artificial intelligence and the next wave of transformative technologies.
A vibrant yellow background showcases bold, black geometric text that exclaims "The Great Progression 2025-2050" across a dynamic halftone circle.
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What is The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050?
We have a historic opportunity to harness AI and other transformative technologies in order to make a much better world in the next 25 years.