Exponential View

Exponential View

🔄 America’s fourth reinvention

As the old world crumbles, who will build the new one?

Peter Leyden
Aug 20, 2025
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Hi, Azeem here with a special guest opinion piece.

Nowhere are today’s global rifts more visible than in the US. To help make sense of this moment, I’ve invited one of the sharpest macro thinkers on system change,

Peter Leyden
, to share his perspective on why America’s future could be brighter than the fractured present suggests.1

Peter is a veteran futurist. He came to San Francisco at the dawn of the digital revolution to work with the founders of WIRED magazine, and has spent decades at the front edge of technological and societal change. Peter now writes

The Great Progression: 2025-2050
newsletter, where he explores in further depth the ideas presented here.

Enjoy Peter’s essay – and do forward it if you find it useful.

Azeem

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