The State of the Future is an informative publication that gives invaluable insights into the future for the United Nations, its Member States, and civil society.
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United NationsEight of the last ten annual State of the Future reports were selected by Future Survey as among the year’s best books on the future.
2007
State of the Future
by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore
J. Gordon
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Paperback with
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2006
State of the Future
by Jerome C. Glenn
and Theodore J. Gordon
Paperback with CD-ROM ... enclosed CD contains over 5,400 pages of research behind
this print edition, plus the Millennium Project's nine years of
cumulative research and methods.ISBN: 0-9722051-5-2
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During the past decade, the annual State of the Future
reports have offered unprecedented insights into the main global trends and
the necessary global, regional, and national actions.
Mihaly Simai, Former UNU chair and UNU/WIDER Director
A must in foresight, an excellent tool for policymakers wanting to shape
the future.
Maria
Joao Rodrigues, Special Advisor to the European Commission
State of the Future shows us the importance of future
thinking and long-term policymaking.
Reyes
Tamez, Minister of Education, Mexico
Best money I ever spent at Ford was on the Millennium Project.
Ed
Martin, former Director, Global Market Research, Ford Motor Company
I treasure very much the outcome of your laudable project…Please keep
up your good works.
Fritz
K. Poku, Ambassador of Ghana to the United States
Extraordinary overview of global prospects for civilization. Futures intelligence on technology, environment, governance, ethics, human and international development––what the educated person should know in the global age. Perfect input for policymaking and those interested in global change.
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2006
L'Etat du Ftutur 
Spanish
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Soon to be available in Chinese, and Persian
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Futures
Research Methodology
Version
2.0
Editors Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon
Comprehensive and internationally peer-reviewed handbook on tools and
methods for forecasting and analysis of global change. Each chapter in
this series gives an executive overview of each method's history,
description, primary and alternative usages, strengths and weaknesses,
use in combination with other methods, and speculation about future usage.
Some also contain appendixes with applications and sources for further information.
Over half of the 25 methods and series of methods presented were written by
the inventor of the method or by a significant contributor to its evolution.
About 700 pages, available on CD
All chapters are presnted in an MsWord (.doc) version and a PDF version.
ISBN: 0-9722051-1-X, August 2003
Library of Congress Control Number: 2003107815
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This 30 minutes video is a comprehensive visual introduction to the 15 challenges discussed by the Millennium Project.
Available on DVD (MPEG video) or on PAL/Secam video tape.
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2005
State of the Future
by Jerome C. Glenn
and Theodore J. Gordon
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CD contains over 3,500 pages of research behind ISBN: 0-9722051-4-4
Read the Executive Summary (PDF file) English, Chinese, French, Japanese, Spanish, Czech The report is also available in French: 2005 L'Etat du Ftutur |
The State of the Future is an extraordinary overview of the emerging future, which reminds policymakers of their longterm responsibilities.
Barbara Haering, Vice-President, Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE
Vice-chair of the Defence Committee of the National Council of SwitzerlandThe Millennium Project's work and its State of the Future reports are very important for Korea and the future of our planet.
Lee Kang-chul, Chief of Staff for the President of South KoreaThe State of the Future compiles an incredible wealth of knowledge from around the planet, the kind of cumulative information that we need to create a real worldwide intelligence.
Luis Alberto Machado, Former Minister of Intelligence, VenezuelaSix of the last eight annual State of the Future reports were selected by Future Survey as among the year's best books on the future.
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2004
State of the Future
by Jerome C. Glenn
and Theodore J. Gordon
Paperback with CD-ROM
... enclosed CD contains over 3,000 pages of research behind
this print edition, plus the Millennium Project's eight years of
cumulative research and methods.
ISBN: 0-9722051-2-8
Library of Congress Control Number: 2004108659
Price: $49.95 US dollars plus shippingRead the Executive Summary (PDF file): English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean
The 2004 State of the Future contains very valuable information for humanity and leaders throughout the world that cannot be found elsewhere.
Dr. Horacio O’Donnell, Chancellor
Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales, ArgentinaThe State of the Future helps guide the Army's azimuth in anticipation of emerging environmental trends ansd issues.
Michael L. Cain, Director
Army Environmental Policy Institute
Chinese
edition2003
State of the Future
by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon
Paperback with CD-ROM
... enclosed CD contains over 2,500 pages of research
behind
this print edition, plus the Millennium Project's seven years of
cumulative research and methods.
ISBN: 0-9722051-0-1, August, 2003
Library of Congress Control Number: 2003107816
Price: $49.95 US dollars plus shipping
The 2003 State of the Future report describes
continuous analyses about widely spread global issues from the neutral
view point.
The study is very useful to understand the global trends of those issues.
Many kinds of policy-makers can be getting inspiration through the report.
Dr.
Tetsuo Saito, Congressman, House of Representative
Former
Vice Minister of Science and Technology, Japan
The 2003 State of the Future is an exceedingly
valuable and unique resource for corporate strategic planning.
Michael
Stoneking, Partner
Deloitte
& Touche
Chinese
edition
Farsi
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2002
State of the Future
Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon
The 2002 edition of the State of the Future addresses in a coherent and forward-looking way many of the issues that impact on the evolution of our planet and the people living on it. At a time of accelerating globalization and an increasing need to organize our societies accordingly, it is essential for policy-makers at all levels to be able to rely on such solid analysis of global trends. The study is a good example of building collective intelligence based on a large network across the world. Philippe Busquin, Commissionner for Science & Technology
The European Commission
2002 State of the Future is a unique resource for those
who care about global change and improving the future. It provides an assessment
of the human situation as a whole, prospects for the future, and actions for
today. It is used by both those who need the most precise briefings and those
who want the full research background. Each chapter in the book is an executive
summary of more complete reports in the CD-ROM section of about 2,000 pages.
As a result, it provides a common platform for global actors, educators, and
the concerned public to use in building more coherent policy.
Paperback with CD-ROM. 100 pages print and about 2,000 pages
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Michael W. DoyleThe 's Millennium Project on the State of the Futurecombines, as it should, flights of imagination into the far future with tightly focused analyses of present challenges. An indispensable volume for those who seek both the inspiration and enlightenment needed to meet the challenges that will make a productive future possible.
Paperback with CD-ROM. 90 pages print and 1,500 page CD-ROM
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Published: August 2001
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State of the Future at the Millennium
Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. GordonISBN 0-9657362-6-1 (Paperback with CD-ROM)
92 pages print and 1000 pages CD-ROM with graphs, tables, annotated bibliography of over 400 scenario sets.
Price: $49.95 US dollars. Discount 40% for orders over 10 copies.
Published: August 2000Best selling book at the July 23-26, 2000 World Future Society Conference.
State of the Future at the Millennium is a “report card on the future” written as an easy guide to what’s happing that can change the world with a range of views from around the world about who should do what to improve our prospects. This is what the educated world citizen should know. It gives you a sense of how humanity can get it all together.
To order, please send email: millennium-project@igc.orgThe past can only be described, but we can write the future together. The State of the Future offers us a creative and new project of hope. -- Frederico Mayor, former Director-General of UNESCO
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Global Challenges For Humanity
UN Millennium Summit & Forum 2000 - Special editionThis Special Edition sponsored by the State of the World Inc. was produced on the occasion of the UN Millennium Summit and Forum 2000. It is drawn from the State of the Future at the Millennium. It have been distributed to Heads of State and other leaders in the United Nations, participants to Forum 2000 and in September 2000 in Prague, with the occasion of the IMF-World Bank meeting.
This booklet is a kind of executive summary version of the 15 Challenges addressed by the Millennium Project.
Click here or on the image of the cover to download the PDF fornat of the booklet.
1999 State of the Future: Challenges We Face at the Millennium
Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordonbook format: ISBN 0-9657362-3-7, 340 pages
CD-ROM format: ISBN 0-9657362-4-5
Published: August 1999
Price: $48.50 + shipping. Discount 40% for orders over 10 copies.“The State of the Future distilles both foresight and genuine wisdom for humanity’s common future - from a global, multi-cultural collegium of advanced thinkers assembled by the Millennium Project. A major social innovation.” (Hazel Henderson)
“Scouting the future frontier into which we so slowly moved wasn't particularly challenging yesteryear. Hugely different now; more so tomorrow, as this book reveals. It is an eye opener: sober, challenging, exciting, appropriately scary. It's something you should read if you expect to go along, especially if you would like to affect the route.” (Doug Engelbart)
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1999 State of the Future
Chinese edition
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1998 State of the Future: Issues and Opportunities
Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon
ISBN: 0-9657362-1-0; 304 pages, paper cover
Price: $38.50 US dollars + shipping. Discount 40% for orders over 10 copies.
Published: August 199815 global opportunities with judgements about polices to achieve them, interactions with 15 global issues from 1997 report, global exploratory and normative scenarios, lessons and questions from history, and annotated bibliography of 250 scenarios.
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Farsi edition of 1998 State of the Future: Issues and Opportunities
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1997 State of The Future: Implications for Actions Today
Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon
ISBN: 0-9657362-0-2; 202 pages, paper cover
Price: $19.9 US dollars + shipping
Published: August 199715 global issues with judgements about polices to address them, global scenarios, methodological issues, internet scanning, and annotated bibliography of 200 scenarios.
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Metodología de Investigación de Futuros (Spanish "Futures Research Methodologies")
Eduardo Raúl Balbi, Editor
La Prospectiva o Investigación de Futuros ha tenido en los últimos cuarenta años, una vida por momentos de esplendor, en otros sumamente azarosa en la región latinoamericana. Los avanzados en el tema comenzaron casi al mismo tiempo que en Europa especialmente en Francia se desarrollaba esta disciplina. De esta manera, muchos fueron los pioneros y muchos más los intentos de incorporarla a las currículas universitarias y a los quehaceres de la actividad privada y de gobierno.
SBN: 987-20343-0-3
Price: $27.00 US dollars plus sipping
Futures Research Methodology
ISBN: 0-9657362-2-9; 500 pages, available on CD-ROM.
Price: $45.95 US dollars + shipping. 40% discount for orders over 10 copies.
Published: February 1999Explains what each method is, how it is used, relation to other methods, and speculation about future uses of 16 methods or groups of methods plus introduction and future of methodology sections.
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- Emerging Environmental Security Issues - Monthly Reports
The purpose of the study is to assess worldwide environmental-related issues in order to identify and analyze events that might trigger future international environmental treaties, conventions, or protocols and/or modifications of the existing ones.
Updated monthly on the website and included, along with analysis and a synthesis report, in the annual State of the Future reports.
- Environmental Security: Emerging International Definitions, Perceptions, and Policy Considerations
(shorter version: "Defining Environmental Security: Implications for the U.S. Army")
by Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, and Renat Perelet, 1997-1998, for the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute
Included in the State of the Future reports published after1998 and available on the AEPI website, http://www.aepi.army.mil/pubs-overseas.html.
- Environmental Security: United Nations Doctrine for Managing Environmental Issues in Military Actions
by Joe B. Sills, Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, Renat Perelet, 1999, for the Army Environmental Policy Institute
- Vol. I United Nations Doctrine for Managing Environmental Issues in Military Actions
- Vol. II International Treaties, Conventions and Protocols that address environmental related issues
Selected International Organizations relevant to Environmental Security
Included in the State of the Future reports published after 1999 and available on the AEPI website, http://www.aepi.army.mil/pubs-overseas.html.- Environmental Crimes in Military Actions and the International Criminal Court (ICC) - UN Perspectives
by Joe Sills, Jerome C. Glenn, Elizabeth Florescu, and Theodore J. Gordon, 2000, for the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute
Included in the State of the Future reports published after 2001 and available on the AEPI website, http://www.aepi.army.mil/pubs-overseas.html.
- Future International Environmental Security Issues and Potential Military Requirements
over the period of 2010 to 2025 (included in the State of the Future reports published after 2003)
by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon, 2002, for the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute
World Leaders on Global Challenges
by Jerome C. Glenn, Elizabeth Florescu, and Theodore J. GordonAnalysis of the statements delivered by heads of State or Governmentat at the UN Millennium Summit, September 6-8, 2000. The full report is included in the State of the Future reports (2001 and after).
This study was done for the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute. Free copies of the edited version of the report can be obtained from the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute and available on the AEPI website, http://www.aepi.army.mil/pubs-overseas.html.
Full text of the study in PDF format downloadable from: Millenium Summit Speeches.pdf
Factors Required for Successful Implementation of Futures Research in Decisionmaking
by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. GordonExamples and case studies when Futures Studies influenced decision making
This study was done for the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute. Free copies of the edited version of the report can be obtained from the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute; please email Mr. John J. Fittipaldi, OASA(I&E) at <John.Fittipaldi@hqda.army.mil>
Third Transition - Towards Sustainable Development and Global Governance
Published in English by Palacky University Press, Olomouk, Czech Republic, 2001
ISBN 80-244-0305-6
(just 300 copies)Price: $15 USD plus shipping
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African Futures 2025Six part series on Sub-Saharan African prospects in:
Available in electronic version. Price: $19.95 US dollars
- Technological capacity
- Economic policy and trade
- Agriculture and food security
- Life support and sustainable development
- Population, education and human welfare
- Peace, governance, and culture
Last updated: Fall 1998To order, please send email: millennium-project@igc.org
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Futures Studies Reports and Papers - in SpanishPrepared by the Centro Latinoamericano de Globalización y Prospectiva, the Latin American node of the Millennium Project, this CD-ROM includes the Spanish version of the 1997 and 1998 State of the Future reports, and papers on Corruption, Globalization, Organized Crime, Political Systems, Roadmaps, Reflections on the Future, and a lot more.
ISBN: 0-9657362-7-X
Price: $49.50 US dollarsTo order, please e-mail: millennium-project@igc.org (to pay in US dollars or credit card) or, to order from Argentina, e-mail: Miguel Angel Gutierrez <eni@sinectis.com.ar>.
Views from the Millennium Project on the Future of Technology with Implications for Society and the United Nations System
Paper prepared by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon for the conference: On the Threshold: The United Nations and Global Governance in the New Millennium, Jnuary 19-21, 2000, United Nations University, Tokyo, JapanFor the MsWord version of this paper please e-mail: millennium-project@igc.org
Feasibility Report
Concluding report of the feasibility of the Millennium Project
The following, two-round Delphi inquiries were conducted to gather judgements from an international panel consisting of futurists, scholars, and interested participants. The panels provided fresh judgements about developments likely to be important to the future size of world population and the environment, and an early perspective on policy options germane to each.
Population report
Environment report
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