About Peter Leyden
About The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050
Welcome to this series, which tells the epic story of our times and the near future, much like an historian 100 years from now would write. It’s a grand narrative of our historic opportunity to harness artificial intelligence and other transformative technologies like clean energy and bioengineering. The goal is to drive progress, reinvent America, and create a much better world by solving challenges like climate change, offering an optimistic reframe of current events.
About Peter Leyden
I’m Peter Leyden, a longtime tech expert and thought leader on the future, since working with WIRED magazine at the dawn of The Digital Age. I coauthored The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980 to 2020, an iconic WIRED cover story and book that shaped thinking on The Digital Age. More recently, I hosted The AI Age Begins, a premier event series in San Francisco, convening top AI experts.