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Why 2025 is the single most pivotal year in our lifetime | 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."
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:sVTvBwWolbQL4BxsTSDUg== [fileUNF]
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"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."
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:sVTvBwWolbQL4BxsTSDUg== [fileUNF]
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