{"id":231052,"date":"2026-02-11T01:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/why-the-next-25-years-could-surpass-anything-in-modern-memory-peter-leyden-full-interview"},"modified":"2026-02-11T01:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:04:37","slug":"why-the-next-25-years-could-surpass-anything-in-modern-memory-peter-leyden-full-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/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><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D0DUzZItVyI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_\">https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOld systems of the past are collapsing, and new systems of the future are still to be born. I call this moment the great progression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Up next, We are living through a slowdown in human progress | Jason Crawford \u25ba \u2022 We are living through a slowdown in human\u2026<\/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>0:00 We\u2019re on the cusp of an era of progress.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/why-the-next-25-years-could-surpass-anything-in-modern-memory-peter-leyden-full-interview\">Continue reading \u201cWhy the next 25 years could surpass anything in modern memory | Peter Leyden: Full Interview\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_\u2026 \u201cOld systems of the past are collapsing, and new systems of the future are still to be born. I call this moment the great progression.\u201d Up next, We are living through a slowdown in human progress | Jason [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}