Media Output from Reinvent Futures
We are committed to capturing much of what we are learning in more exclusive events in San Francisco and then creating media that can be more widely shared.
The two key places on the web to see our public-facing media are The Great Progression Substack series and the Reinvent Futures Youtube channel. See more on both below.
Written Essays & Extended Quotes
We maintain The Great Progression Substack series that is based on what we are learning together in all our convenings and is free to all.
Each major event is written up by our host and curator Peter Leyden in an essay that synthesizes the most important ideas that emerged and explains how they matter in the big picture.
We also then publish extended quotes from the short talks that some of the most remarkable attendees so others can more closely study their words.
Check out three of the most popular essays that were published in 2023 to get a sense of the quality of the pieces and the positive, can-do nature of the gatherings:
The Real Implications of Gen AI: On the real tech capabilities of Gen AI in the near term, and then what are the actual business opportunities through the 2020s.
The Positive Potential of Gen AI: On the many positive developments that could blossom throughout society in the long term, like over the next 25 years.
The Actual Risks of Gen AI : On the top 10 risks that seem to be most pressing and some initial thoughts on how they might be solved.
Video Clips of Remarkable Talks
The larger convenings like in The Great Progression event series often are videoed as well and we then produce short videos of the 5-minute presentations of the best ones. You can see all of them at the Reinvent Futures YouTube channel.
You can see the entire playlist of a dozen speakers in the adjacent video on the positive possibilities of Generative AI. Or go right to YouTube and see The Great Progression overview playlist of all the videos in the series so far.
Or go right to the individual videos of some of the best minds in the world who know about AI right now like:
Google Brain cofounder Greg Corrado, Coursera cofounder Daphne Koller, Salesforce’s Chief Futures Officer Peter Schwartz, Former Director of the Patent Office Michelle Lee, Chroma cofounder Anton Troynikov, UC Berkeley Economic Historian Brad DeLong, or Generally Intelligent cofounder Kanjun Qui, among many others.
The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050
The Great Progression Series of events put on by Reinvent Futures is rooted in the recent magazine article that Peter Leyden wrote in 2022 called The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050.
The Great Progression article makes the case that America and the world are heading into a decade of many fundamental system changes that will lay the foundation for a new era of great progress that will go a long way towards solving the many challenges of our time like climate change.
The article has received a lot of attention because of its positive reframe of the actual story of our times and the near future that counters the conventional wisdom of gloom and doom from the mainstream media and public at large.
The article also is an unusually comprehensive analysis of progress happening in a wide variety of fields in technology and science, business and economics, as well as politics and geopolitics.
Much More at PeterLeyden.com
Our Founder Peter Leyden gives keynote talks on roughly a monthly basis throughout America and sometimes Europe. You can find many full videos of his talks as well as short video clips on his own website geared to his public speaking and writing at PeterLeyden.com.
Or watch the adjacent video of a 30-minute keynote talk he recently gave to European senior executives in Cannes, France, on The Great Progression, putting the emergence of Generative AI in context. That gives you a sense of what else you can find on PeterLeyden.com.