In a world of Ray Kurzweil's (debatable) Law of Accelerating Returns -- and the shared impression that "progress" always accelerates and today is the slowest it will be compared with the future -- Leyden's 80-year/25-year observation seems an absurdly arbitrary and sluggish astrological rhythm with which to frame society.
Lots of great reframes in this.
Peter Leyden's take likely suffered in comparison with the uncanny timing around Nicolas Colin's Carlota Perez-inspired economics framing of the same (https://www.driftsignal.com/p/late-cycle-investment-theory).
In a world of Ray Kurzweil's (debatable) Law of Accelerating Returns -- and the shared impression that "progress" always accelerates and today is the slowest it will be compared with the future -- Leyden's 80-year/25-year observation seems an absurdly arbitrary and sluggish astrological rhythm with which to frame society.
Great issue, Rodrigo!!
Thanks, Thomas! 🥰