The Great Progression: 2025-2050

The Great Progression: 2025-2050

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A Call for the A Team to Come Together in San Francisco to Help Figure Out the New Way Forward
Watch this video or read the transcript of the kickoff talk for a new series of physical events about how to build off all the key ideas in our series…
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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…
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Three Pioneering Founders See the Potential for Great Progress Opening Up
The cofounders of Apple's Siri, Google's NotebookLM & a leading bioengineering organization lay out what's now possible in the kickoff of The Great…
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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…
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Our first Physical Gathering in San Francisco & next Virtual Gathering of The Great Progression Network
The next virtual gathering for paid members will be May 15th & our first physical gathering for founding members will be May 29th in San Francisco …
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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A Positive Reframe of What Trump Might be Doing for America in the Long Term
Trump might unintentionally bring surprisingly positive outcomes to America, clearing the way for the building of truly 21st-century systems and opening…
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The Next Stage of Gatherings for The Great Progression Network
Our first virtual gathering for paid members will be April 17th & our first physical gathering for founding members will be May 15 in San Francisco …
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America is Going Through Its Every-80-Year Reinvention
Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we're witnessing today - and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle
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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 …
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