{"id":99118,"date":"2026-08-31T14:05:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=99118"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:06:04","slug":"why-the-next-25-years-could-surpass-anything-in-modern-memory-peter-leyden-full-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/08\/31\/why-the-next-25-years-could-surpass-anything-in-modern-memory-peter-leyden-full-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the next 25 years could surpass anything in modern memory | Peter Leyden: Full Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D0DUzZItVyI?si=b2AyTv3-dTzPPr4T\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We are at a tipping point. In the next 25 years, technologies like AI, clean energy, and bioengineering are poised to reshape society on a scale few can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Leyden draws on decades of observing technological revolutions and historical patterns to show how old systems collapse, new ones rise, and humanity faces both extraordinary risk and unprecedented opportunity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">0:00 We\u2019re on the cusp of an era of progress<br \/>\n0:37 The Great Progression<br \/>\n1:08 What was the \u2018Long Boom?\u2019<br \/>\n4:56 How often do these epoch resets happen?<br \/>\n6:12 3 Tipping points<br \/>\n6:39 Artificial Intelligence<br \/>\n7:13 Clean energy technologies<br \/>\n7:32 Biotechnology<br \/>\n9:00 The 80-year cycle<br \/>\n13:27 The Gilded Age<br \/>\n17:50 The Founding Era<br \/>\n22:46 The new enlightenment<br \/>\n32:18 The clean energy revolution<br \/>\n37:13 Bioengineering the genome<br \/>\n39:43 Industrial production vs biological engineering<br \/>\n47:40 What will the future think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are at a tipping point. In the next 25 years, technologies like AI, clean energy, and bioengineering are poised to reshape society on a scale few can imagine. Peter Leyden draws on decades of observing technological revolutions and historical patterns to show how old systems collapse, new ones rise, and humanity faces both extraordinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,356,86,143,210,82,237,533,37,35,178,234,391,419,180,55,309,83,480,460,206,321,367,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-change","category-disruption","category-emerging-technologies","category-engineering","category-entrepreneurship","category-experimentation","category-future","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-history","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-internet","category-platforms","category-science","category-society","category-technology-general","category-trends","category-united-states","category-vendors","category-vision-possibilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99119,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99118\/revisions\/99119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}