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\n Peter Leyden <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n
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Thought leader on AI, new technologies, and the future<\/p>\n

The Great Progression: 2025-2050<\/i>, Leyden\u2019s new series of essays and interviews for Freethink Voices, roughs out a new grand narrative of our historic opportunity to harness AI and other transformative technologies to drive progress, reinvent America, and make a much better world.<\/p>\n

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\n \n The Great Progression <\/a>\n<\/div> \n America\u2019s next grand mission: Build an AI-powered society for all <\/a>\n
\n America\u2019s new mission isn\u2019t just to invent the new technology of AI. It must invent the systems that then make the most of AI. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div> <\/div>\n
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\n \n The Great Progression <\/a>\n<\/div> \n A call to innovators in Silicon Valley and beyond to help chart the new way forward <\/a>\n
\n Peter Leyden sums up the key themes and big ideas of his new series at a Freethink Conversation in San Francisco. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div> <\/div>\n
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\n \n The Great Progression <\/a>\n<\/div> \n What if you could start civilization over with AI? <\/a>\n
\n Innovators in every industry and field should adopt the same mantra: If you could start fresh with AI, then what would you do? <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div> <\/div>\n
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\n \n The Great Progression <\/a>\n<\/div> \n Three founders look to the future at Freethink\u2019s inaugural Great Progression event <\/a>\n
\n The tech community came together for the launch of the Great Progression event series, curated by Peter Leyden and produced by Freethink. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div> <\/div>\n
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\n The 21st-century version of the Royal Society could be the Substack network that we are just starting to build out today. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div> <\/div>\n
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\n \n The Great Progression <\/a>\n<\/div> \n How AI could usher in The New Enlightenment <\/a>\n
\n AI could trigger a civilization-scale change for humanity the same way the steam engine helped usher in The Enlightenment 250 years ago. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div> <\/div>\n
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\n \n The Great Progression <\/a>\n<\/div> \n The missing tech case for how we create an era of abundance <\/a>\n
\n AI and other new technologies could make things that are costly and scarce today, cheap and abundant for all tomorrow. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div> <\/div>\n
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\n \n The Great Progression <\/a>\n<\/div> \n Why America reinvents itself every 80 years \u2014 and is doing so again <\/a>\n
\n Three separate theories help explain why America enters a period of great progress every 80 years \u2014 and why another is coming soon. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div> <\/div>\n
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\n \n The Great Progression <\/a>\n<\/div> \n What a historian in 2100 might say about Trump\u2019s America <\/a>\n
\n President Donald Trump might clear the way for the building of 21st-century systems and open up the political space for a new way forward. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div> <\/div>\n
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\n \n The Great Progression <\/a>\n<\/div> \n Kevin Kelly points a new way forward into the Age of AI <\/a>\n
\n 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. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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