Peter Leyden
@peteleyden.bsky.social
Creator of The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050. Tech expert & thought leader on AI, new technologies & the future as a frequent keynote speaker, influential author & writer. Founder of Reinvent Futures for foresight advising. For more see peterleyden.com
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Peter Leyden
@peteleyden.bsky.social
· Mar 18
What is The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050?
This new series will rough out a new grand narrative of our historic opportunity to harness AI and other transformative technologies in order to make a much better world in the next 25 years
peterleyden.substack.com
Today is launch day of my new Substack series The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050. This linked story lays out the ambitious project that I will take on over the course of the coming year. The series is free & will fill out a new grand narrative for 25 years.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
peterleyden.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
This comprehensive interview of me by Big Think just came out and gives all the key pieces of my upcoming book with HarperCollins. Check it out.
All well & good but first America needs to overcome Putin-styled election fraud & the Electoral College, antiquated, obsolete voting technology, & organized crime corruption in the White House @bigthink.com @peteleyden.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DU...
Why the next 25 years could surpass anything in modern memory | Peter Leyden: Full Interview
YouTube video by Big Think
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This comprehensive interview of me by Big Think just came out and gives all the key pieces of my upcoming book with HarperCollins. Check it out.
Reposted by Peter Leyden
When listening to experts talk about patterns in history, invariably, I learn something that shifts my perspective.
I highly recommend listening to @peteleyden.bsky.social in this @bigthink.com interview.
#trends #AI #CleanEnergy #Bioengineering #DigitalGovernance
bigthink.com/series/the-b...
I highly recommend listening to @peteleyden.bsky.social in this @bigthink.com interview.
#trends #AI #CleanEnergy #Bioengineering #DigitalGovernance
bigthink.com/series/the-b...
Why 2025 is the single most pivotal year in our lifetime
"We're living in an extraordinary moment in history. We are at a moment here in 2025 where we have world historic game-changing technologies now starting to scale."
bigthink.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
When listening to experts talk about patterns in history, invariably, I learn something that shifts my perspective.
I highly recommend listening to @peteleyden.bsky.social in this @bigthink.com interview.
#trends #AI #CleanEnergy #Bioengineering #DigitalGovernance
bigthink.com/series/the-b...
I highly recommend listening to @peteleyden.bsky.social in this @bigthink.com interview.
#trends #AI #CleanEnergy #Bioengineering #DigitalGovernance
bigthink.com/series/the-b...
Reposted by Peter Leyden
Thank you Pete for making such a great video that gives such percipient insight into our future.
@peteleyden.bsky.social
@peteleyden.bsky.social
2025: The end of our world as we know it | Peter Leyden
YouTube video by Freethink
youtu.be
July 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Thank you Pete for making such a great video that gives such percipient insight into our future.
@peteleyden.bsky.social
@peteleyden.bsky.social
This documentary-style video interview of me has racked up 615,000 views, 23,000 likes, and 2600 comments in Youtube in just the last week. It lays out in 15 minutes my big idea that America is entering its fourth great reinvention - which might be why it went viral.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zoC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zoC...
2025: The end of our world as we know it | Peter Leyden
YouTube video by Freethink
www.youtube.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This documentary-style video interview of me has racked up 615,000 views, 23,000 likes, and 2600 comments in Youtube in just the last week. It lays out in 15 minutes my big idea that America is entering its fourth great reinvention - which might be why it went viral.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zoC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zoC...
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Something better is coming. The mess we’re in now is an inflection point. How we choose to meet this moment will determine how painful the change is.
Happy Fourth of July. Watch this new documentary-style video that does a great job laying out my big idea that America is now going through a reinvention that has happened just three times before. This is not about Trump today but the next 25 years. @freethink.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zoC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zoC...
2025: The end of our world as we know it | Peter Leyden
YouTube video by Freethink
www.youtube.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Something better is coming. The mess we’re in now is an inflection point. How we choose to meet this moment will determine how painful the change is.
Happy Fourth of July. Watch this new documentary-style video that does a great job laying out my big idea that America is now going through a reinvention that has happened just three times before. This is not about Trump today but the next 25 years. @freethink.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zoC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zoC...
2025: The end of our world as we know it | Peter Leyden
YouTube video by Freethink
www.youtube.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Happy Fourth of July. Watch this new documentary-style video that does a great job laying out my big idea that America is now going through a reinvention that has happened just three times before. This is not about Trump today but the next 25 years. @freethink.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zoC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zoC...
This new essay of mine draws off some big lessons I have learned in my 30 years in the tech world of San Francisco and applies them to other industries and fields in terms of what we should now do around the arrival of AI. The big example is K-12 education.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/the-new-ma...
peterleyden.substack.com/p/the-new-ma...
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 the new foundation of intelligent machines
peterleyden.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This new essay of mine draws off some big lessons I have learned in my 30 years in the tech world of San Francisco and applies them to other industries and fields in terms of what we should now do around the arrival of AI. The big example is K-12 education.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/the-new-ma...
peterleyden.substack.com/p/the-new-ma...
Reposted by Peter Leyden
Here's the full Newsom address. It's great. (99% anyway, it's a tiny quibble but can we please stop reflexively adding "hard working" as the sole acceptable preceding adjective for immigrants)
www.youtube.com/live/0n77NFj...
www.youtube.com/live/0n77NFj...
EXCLUSIVE: Governor Newsom ADDRESSES State and Nation LIVE
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
www.youtube.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Here's the full Newsom address. It's great. (99% anyway, it's a tiny quibble but can we please stop reflexively adding "hard working" as the sole acceptable preceding adjective for immigrants)
www.youtube.com/live/0n77NFj...
www.youtube.com/live/0n77NFj...
Reposted by Peter Leyden
This is a superb speech by @governor.ca.gov just now.
Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump.
This is how you want a leader to talk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...
Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump.
This is how you want a leader to talk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...
'Weakness masquerading as strength': Hear Newsom's blistering speech on Trump as LA protests persist
YouTube video by CNN
www.youtube.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This is a superb speech by @governor.ca.gov just now.
Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump.
This is how you want a leader to talk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...
Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump.
This is how you want a leader to talk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...
I recently helped launch a new event series in San Francisco, which I host & curate, based on the framework & worldview of my Substack series and upcoming book called The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050. I'm doing in it partnership with @freethink.com.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/three-pion...
peterleyden.substack.com/p/three-pion...
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 Progression event series in San Francisco
peterleyden.substack.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I recently helped launch a new event series in San Francisco, which I host & curate, based on the framework & worldview of my Substack series and upcoming book called The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050. I'm doing in it partnership with @freethink.com.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/three-pion...
peterleyden.substack.com/p/three-pion...
I’m particularly proud of my new essay that I have not seen anyone else layout out. The big idea is that AI is actually under-hyped & will actually bring civilizational-scale changes that humans last went through more than 250 years ago in The Enlightenment.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/ai-may-bri...
peterleyden.substack.com/p/ai-may-bri...
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 Enlightenment. Here we go again.
peterleyden.substack.com
May 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I’m particularly proud of my new essay that I have not seen anyone else layout out. The big idea is that AI is actually under-hyped & will actually bring civilizational-scale changes that humans last went through more than 250 years ago in The Enlightenment.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/ai-may-bri...
peterleyden.substack.com/p/ai-may-bri...
Reposted by Peter Leyden
“A new era of great abundance will not just come because we build a movement ... but because we now have the technologies that will allow us to build a new kind of economy and society that could work much better for everyone.” — Peter Leyden @peteleyden.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“A new era of great abundance will not just come because we build a movement ... but because we now have the technologies that will allow us to build a new kind of economy and society that could work much better for everyone.” — Peter Leyden @peteleyden.bsky.social
There are two worlds that talk about “abundance” and I have a foot in both, but they don’t seem to be talking to each other — and should. One is in left-of-center politics and the other world is in tech. We need to combine the insights from both - so I did.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/the-missin...
peterleyden.substack.com/p/the-missin...
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 & scarce today, cheap & abundant for all tomorrow
peterleyden.substack.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
There are two worlds that talk about “abundance” and I have a foot in both, but they don’t seem to be talking to each other — and should. One is in left-of-center politics and the other world is in tech. We need to combine the insights from both - so I did.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/the-missin...
peterleyden.substack.com/p/the-missin...
I wrote an essay a couple weeks ago that went viral on how America could be heading into a reinvention like only a few times before. My new piece this week lays out the case about why this happens every 80 years and points out all the evidence around us now.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/why-americ...
peterleyden.substack.com/p/why-americ...
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 certain generations. We have them all right now.
peterleyden.substack.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I wrote an essay a couple weeks ago that went viral on how America could be heading into a reinvention like only a few times before. My new piece this week lays out the case about why this happens every 80 years and points out all the evidence around us now.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/why-americ...
peterleyden.substack.com/p/why-americ...
This is another big idea that I have not seen anyone really talking about but that has huge consequences if true. This one reframe can change how you interpret all the news coming out of Washington DC.
Check out my latest Substack essay to understand why.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/a-positive...
Check out my latest Substack essay to understand why.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/a-positive...
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 up the political space for a new way forward
peterleyden.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is another big idea that I have not seen anyone really talking about but that has huge consequences if true. This one reframe can change how you interpret all the news coming out of Washington DC.
Check out my latest Substack essay to understand why.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/a-positive...
Check out my latest Substack essay to understand why.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/a-positive...
I always learn something about tech & the future from @kevinkelly.bsky.social that I have never thought about before. I bet you will too in reading the highlights I draw out from my recent interview of the founding executive editor of WIRED & all-around tech guru.
open.substack.com/pub/peterley...
open.substack.com/pub/peterley...
Kevin Kelly Points a New Way Forward into The AI Age
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
open.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I always learn something about tech & the future from @kevinkelly.bsky.social that I have never thought about before. I bet you will too in reading the highlights I draw out from my recent interview of the founding executive editor of WIRED & all-around tech guru.
open.substack.com/pub/peterley...
open.substack.com/pub/peterley...
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peterleyden.substack.com/p/america-is... @peteleyden.bsky.social nails it again
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
peterleyden.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
peterleyden.substack.com/p/america-is... @peteleyden.bsky.social nails it again
This takes you to one of the syndicated versions of my Substack story that went out today from my new series The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050. The media company @freethink.com is taking all my essays from within the Substack world & putting them out in the web & into their mailing lists.
✱ To understand our current moment and what the future might hold, @peteleyden.bsky.social explores pivotal moments of reinvention in America's past: buff.ly/NCIOFfy
April 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This takes you to one of the syndicated versions of my Substack story that went out today from my new series The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050. The media company @freethink.com is taking all my essays from within the Substack world & putting them out in the web & into their mailing lists.
This is a big idea that I have not seen anywhere else that goes a long way to explaining what is really happening in America and the world right now.
I’m biased, since I wrote it, but if you want a positive reframe about what's going on, take a read.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/america-is...
I’m biased, since I wrote it, but if you want a positive reframe about what's going on, take a read.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/america-is...
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
peterleyden.substack.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is a big idea that I have not seen anywhere else that goes a long way to explaining what is really happening in America and the world right now.
I’m biased, since I wrote it, but if you want a positive reframe about what's going on, take a read.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/america-is...
I’m biased, since I wrote it, but if you want a positive reframe about what's going on, take a read.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/america-is...
Reposted by Peter Leyden
I’m very excited to read The Great Progression series as it gets written by @peteleyden.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I’m very excited to read The Great Progression series as it gets written by @peteleyden.bsky.social
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I finally tool a ride with @waymo here in San Francisco. Mind-boggling. Kinda doubt this would work outside of USA, tho, driving in cities is very laid back and clear-cut, here. Unlike say, Amsterdam (cyclists looking for trouble, constantly), Paris (motorized Darwinism)... Berlin??
buff.ly/OKAjPrl
buff.ly/OKAjPrl
March 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I finally tool a ride with @waymo here in San Francisco. Mind-boggling. Kinda doubt this would work outside of USA, tho, driving in cities is very laid back and clear-cut, here. Unlike say, Amsterdam (cyclists looking for trouble, constantly), Paris (motorized Darwinism)... Berlin??
buff.ly/OKAjPrl
buff.ly/OKAjPrl
This is the syndicated version of my Substack essay this week that goes out through the media ecosystem of @freethink.com on the web and social media that uses different visuals - and pull quotes like another message I'm forwarding after this.
A deep dive on our newest Freethink Voice and what you can expect from future articles: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...
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.
www.freethink.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is the syndicated version of my Substack essay this week that goes out through the media ecosystem of @freethink.com on the web and social media that uses different visuals - and pull quotes like another message I'm forwarding after this.
Reposted by Peter Leyden
12 reasons to read @peteleyden.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
12 reasons to read @peteleyden.bsky.social
I've launched my new Substack series that is heading towards my third book & my essay this week does something that I wish many other Substack writers or columnists would do: make the case why I should read you given all the other options out there.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/a-dozen-re...
peterleyden.substack.com/p/a-dozen-re...
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 & the next wave of transformative technologies
peterleyden.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I've launched my new Substack series that is heading towards my third book & my essay this week does something that I wish many other Substack writers or columnists would do: make the case why I should read you given all the other options out there.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/a-dozen-re...
peterleyden.substack.com/p/a-dozen-re...
Today is launch day of my new Substack series The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050. This linked story lays out the ambitious project that I will take on over the course of the coming year. The series is free & will fill out a new grand narrative for 25 years.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
peterleyden.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
What is The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050?
This new series will rough out a new grand narrative of our historic opportunity to harness AI and other transformative technologies in order to make a much better world in the next 25 years
peterleyden.substack.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Today is launch day of my new Substack series The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050. This linked story lays out the ambitious project that I will take on over the course of the coming year. The series is free & will fill out a new grand narrative for 25 years.
peterleyden.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
peterleyden.substack.com/p/what-is-th...