The United States will retain technological leadership over the next 5-10 years compared to the rest of the world, but the pace of technological advancement globally will slow considerably because the US educational system is broadly adequate and capital is available, whereas everywhere else faces capital constraints and worse demographics, and the US millennial class is larger than the millennial class in the rest of the free world combined.

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Speaker

Peter Zeihan

Evidence Quote

American educational system is broadly okay... volume of the capital that is available... still the by far the tallest of the midgets... millennial class in the United States is larger than the millennial class. In the rest of the free world combined

Source

Peter Zeihan: Mapping the Collapse of GlobalizationCommonwealth Club World Affairs of California
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:34:46 PM

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