"PETER LEYDEN: 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. Artificial intelligence, clean energy technologies, bioengineering, all here. We're at the cusp of a potentially a great era of progress. But America and the world itself are going through huge contortions. Old systems of the past are collapsing, and new systems of the future are still to be born."
"I call this moment the great progression. I'm Pete Leyden. I've been here in San Francisco for 30 years. I've basically been following the story of technology, and its evolution, and looking ahead into how it's gonna change the world over the next 25 years. And my current project right now is looking at the great progression, what I think is gonna be a great era of great progress from now until about the year 2050."
A convergence of world-historic, game-changing technologies in 2025—artificial intelligence, clean energy, and bioengineering—is initiating a period of rapid scaling with potential for substantial progress through 2050. Simultaneously, existing political, economic, and institutional systems are undergoing severe strain and partial collapse, creating a gap that new systems must fill. Early stages of the digital revolution featured widespread skepticism about nascent startups and internet tools, yet those technologies matured and transformed economies. The current era presents both profound opportunity for advancement and significant transitional challenges as societies adapt to accelerating technological change.
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