State of
the future report
2010
Webmaster
As
noted in 2010
State of the Future
(the 14th annual report from the Millennium
Project, just published), the world is in a race
between implementing ever-increasing ways to
improve the human condition and the seemingly
ever-increasing complexity and scale of global
problems.
If current
trends in
population
growth,
resource
depletion,
climate
change,
terrorism,
organized
crime, and
disease
continue and
converge
over the
next 50 to
100 years,
it is easy
to imagine
an unstable
world with
catastrophic
results.
However, if
current
trends in
self-organization
via future
Internets,
transnational
cooperation,
materials
science,
alternative
energy,
cognitive
science,
inter-religious
dialogues,
synthetic
biology, and
nanotechnology
continue and
converge
over the
next 50 to
100 years,
it is easy
to imagine a
world that
works for
all.
