Peter Leyden

YouTube video by Freethink 2025: The end of our world as we know it | Peter Leyden

Thank you Pete for making such a great video that gives such percipient insight into our future.
@peteleyden.bsky.social

YouTube video by Freethink 2025: The end of our world as we know it | Peter Leyden

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.
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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.

YouTube video by Freethink 2025: The end of our world as we know it | Peter Leyden

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
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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 the new foundation of intelligent machines

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.

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EXCLUSIVE: Governor Newsom ADDRESSES State and Nation LIVE YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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)

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YouTube video by CNN 'Weakness masquerading as strength': Hear Newsom's blistering speech on Trump as LA protests persist

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.

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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 Progression event series in San Francisco

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.

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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 Enlightenment. Here we go again.

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.
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“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

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

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.

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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 certain generations. We have them all right now.

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.
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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 up the political space for a new way forward

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.

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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

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.

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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

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.

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

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.

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I’m very excited to read The Great Progression series as it gets written by @peteleyden.bsky.social

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??
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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.

12 reasons to read @peteleyden.bsky.social

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

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.
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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

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.
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D Trump, P Hegseth, E Musk among them, have:

-Around nine marriages (count varies)
-Multiple out-of-wedlock children;
-Multiple sexual-misconduct accusations, cash settlements, at least one jury verdict;
-Zero time in uniform (Trump, Musk). Iraq/Afgh for Hegseth.

Yesterday they fired ....

We need generational change at every level of our politics.

This photo... my God.

Bluesky Is Turning Into a Strong X Alternative Bluesky has a hint of the old Twitter magic, but the feeling of freedom it offers might be even better.

I wrote about this app! It’s good! (But you know that, you’re here)
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Sharon and I voted today for Kamala Harris at a voting booth that's not more than a mile from the school where she was educated in Berkeley. We walked from our house that is about a mile from the house where she grew up.

We could not be happier that our next president will be a Berkeley girl.

omg THE dude is on the white dudes for harris call!!

White dudes for Harris with Jeff bridges

White Dudes For Harris understood the assignment and then some lmao

But first, sign up for Monday's 8pm ET call with thousands more White Dudes for Harris, get more to join, and give. Then don the cap with honor.
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