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We are living through the collapse of the old world, and the quiet construction of a new one. From artificial intelligence and clean energy to bioengineering and digital governance, the core systems that defined the last century are rapidly being dismantled and replaced. But this isn’t just about technology.
According to futurist Peter Leyden, we’re at a historic turning point: One of the rare moments in American and global history when everything gets reimagined at once.
0:00 An extraordinary moment in history
1:05 Wired magazine
2:09 Technology adoption curve
2:53 80 year cycles
3:26 Post-war era
5:08 Gilded age
6:59 Founding era
8:24 The arrival of AI
9:42 The rise of clean energy
10:52 The rise of bioengineering
13:45 The beginning of a shift
References:
Article: Ziegler, M. S.; Trancik, J. E. Re-Examining Rates of Lithium-Ion Battery Technology Improvement and Cost Decline. Energy Environ. Sci. 2021, 14, 1635–1651.
DOI: 10.1039/D0EE02681F
URL: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/artic...
Dataset: Ziegler, M. S.; Trancik, J. E., 2021, "Data series for lithium-ion battery technologies", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9FEJ7C, Trancik Lab Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:sVT2vBwWolbQL4BxsTSDUg== [fileUNF]
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• Inside the high tech quest to decode the l... Read more about Peter Leyden's theory about The Great Progression at his Substack: https://peterleyden.substack.com/
We are living through the collapse of the old world, and the quiet construction of a new one. From artificial intelligence and clean energy to bioengineering and digital governance, the core systems that defined the last century are rapidly being dismantled and replaced. But this isn’t just about technology.
According to futurist Peter Leyden, we’re at a historic turning point: One of the rare moments in American and global history when everything gets reimagined at once.
0:00 An extraordinary moment in history
1:05 Wired magazine
2:09 Technology adoption curve
2:53 80 year cycles
3:26 Post-war era
5:08 Gilded age
6:59 Founding era
8:24 The arrival of AI
9:42 The rise of clean energy
10:52 The rise of bioengineering
13:45 The beginning of a shift
References:
Article: Ziegler, M. S.; Trancik, J. E. Re-Examining Rates of Lithium-Ion Battery Technology Improvement and Cost Decline. Energy Environ. Sci. 2021, 14, 1635–1651.
DOI: 10.1039/D0EE02681F
URL: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/artic...
Dataset: Ziegler, M. S.; Trancik, J. E., 2021, "Data series for lithium-ion battery technologies", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9FEJ7C, Trancik Lab Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:sVT2vBwWolbQL4BxsTSDUg== [fileUNF]
Watch on Freethink.com ► https://www.freethink.com/series/the-...
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Our world is changing so rapidly that even the builders of this new world don't always know how things are happening, but they are happening.
In history, there has been the rise and fall of empires and as Peter Leyden has to aptly revised US history, it is a global story and the need for advancement and to be first leads the race of an almost run away train.
We are living in such extraordinary times and the rate of advancement is so mind blowing, it's hard to wrap our heads around it. We are able to have conversations and have informed replies, with an inanimate object, it helps us create and reason and it's helping mankind build it's future and according to some, could already be more intelligent than us.
I'm excited to see where we go from here and how all these advancement will help make our lives easier and more productive, allowing us to interact with each other more because AI will free our time so we can reconnect.