Media Mentions Quoting Leyden about his Analysis
Peter Leyden is able to constantly iterate his ideas and apply what he knows to the constantly changing news of the day. He does this through traditional media outlets and the burgeoning world of online media, as well as the occasional documentary film.
Here you can find a range of some of his most interesting recent appearances. Click on the images or links to get to the original material.
Documentary Film on Solving Climate Change
Leyden was one of the key interviews of a new documentary film on how the world can find common ground to solve climate change in time.
A half-dozen members of a Canadian film crew rented out the penthouse of a skyscraper in San Francisco to provide the environment for Leyden to give his big-picture, relatively blue-sky analysis of how we can stop global warming in the next 25 years. (The photo at the top of the page and adjacent are part of that shoot.)
The full-length film “Common Ground” is now out and available on all the major streaming platforms.
Politico Interview on the State of Strategic Foresight
On the 25-year anniversary of The Long Boom, Leyden’s famous - and quite prescient - cover story in Wired Magazine that later went into a book in multiple languages, Politico circled back to get Leyden’s take on the state of strategic foresight and a look ahead at the next 25 years. Check out what he had to say.
NYT Ross Douthat on Leyden’s California is the Future Series
Leyden coauthored a four-part series of articles in Medium called California is the Future that exploded in popularity and controversy well before the 2018 midterm American election.
The series made the argument that California was roughing out the future of American politics and predicted that the Republicans would lose the House and Senate in the 2018 midterms, and Trump would lose his reelection bid in 2020 - both of which turned out to be prescient.
In the spring of 2018 Ross Douthat, the conservative columnist for The New York Times, weighed in on that analysis in a full column. He was quite impressed by the argument, though pushed back on various aspects. Here’s the column or click on the adjacent image.
Executive Summit in Paris: Interview on the Coming Long Boom Squared
The last talk Leyden gave in a physical conference before the global pandemic shut down the world was in Paris in late 2019.
He was working through the early material of what became The Transformation body of work and presented to an elite executive summit of C-level business leaders from across Europe.
This short edited video gives an overview of his thinking at the time, which turned out to hold true despite the intervening pandemic.
De Zeit Interview for European Audience
The prescience of The Long Boom, Leyden’s iconic cover story for Wired and book of many languages, lead to many interviews by the mainstream media. Here’s one by De Zeit, the leading media company of Germany with a large European audience.
This interview went through many of the positive as well as negative developments that the original work forecast - and that turned out to actually come true. He also talks about why some missed the mark too.