The Great Progression: 2025-2050

The Great Progression: 2025-2050

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The Long Arc of Human History is Toward Planetary Thinking
From the point of view of all humans on Earth, Globalization did not fail but improved the lives of billions. What lies ahead is the next stage of human…
 • Peter Leyden
AI Could Trigger the Biggest Productivity Boom Ever - Bringing Many Surprising Benefits
Productivity increases bring more economic growth, more wealth, more wage gains and more general prosperity. AI might be just what we need to solve a…
 • Peter Leyden
How Bioengineering Will Help Save the Planet
Why we need synthetic biology to help supersede industrial production and join with clean energy technologies to ultimately solve climate change too
 • Peter Leyden
The Coming Next Moves for Left Tech
Right Tech leaders may have backed Trump in 2024, but the majority of the tech world still leans left - and has a big opportunity ahead.
 • Peter Leyden
A New Progressive Era Is Emerging
The case that a bipartisan movement structured around driving great progress and reform may be reaching critical mass in America much like what happened…
 • Peter Leyden
The China Factor in The Great Progression of the Next 25 Years
My recent trip to China shows the incredible material progress for its citizens and contributions to the world's clean energy future but also the…
 • Peter Leyden
The Next Great American Mission: Invent the AI-powered Society that Works for All
What the world needs now is a way to build a thriving economy and society around artificial intelligence that works for everyone. America can and should…
 • Peter Leyden
The New Mantra: If You Could Start Fresh with AI, then What Would You Do?
The advance team of innovators In every industry and every field need to clean the whiteboards and think through how to rebuild their worlds based on…
 • Peter Leyden
Substack is like the Royal Society of the 21st Century for The New Enlightenment
Imagine what more "the men of letters" in The Enlightenment could have done to reinvent Western Civilization if they had all the tools we have on…
 • Peter Leyden
AI May Bring Civilizational-scale Change & The New Enlightenment
The last time we saw a step-change in human understanding and a wave of mega-inventions, we also saw the birth of a new civilization in The…
 • Peter Leyden
The Missing Tech Case for How We Create an Era of Abundance
A new political movement and government reform won't be enough to bring abundance, but AI and new technologies could soon make things that are costly …
 • Peter Leyden
Why America Reinvents Itself Every 80 Years - and Is Doing So Again
The three main drivers are the arrival of transformative technologies, the looming potential for vast economic growth, plus the right alignment of…
 • Peter Leyden
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