“We went from nobody being connected to everybody on the planet being connected in just 30 years.”

This past December, writer, entrepreneur, and former Wired editor Peter Leyden published The Transformation, a six-part speculative fiction series that imagines a journalist named Stuart Rand in the year 2100, looking back at a century of radical innovation.

The fictional interviews with Rand, which touch on politics, climate change, and the role of the United States in a world remaking itself, pay particular attention to the role of technology.