The Millennium Project - Issues and opportunities for the future

This issue presents the distillation of views of approximately 250 particip ants from around the world who have contributed their judgments about the s tate of the future. A total of 180 developments were identified and rated t hat could evolve over the foreseeable future to significantly improve the h uman condition. These were clustered into 15 global opportunities with sugg ested actions that might be useful in achieving the opportunities. The effe ctiveness of these actions was judged by policy makers and advisors. The re lationships and impacts of the 15 global issues from last year's report and the 15 global opportunities in this year's report are included. Lessons an d questions from history were also identified and rated for value in future s research. Global exploratory scenarios from the first year of the Project were extended by judgments of Project participants, quantitative global mo dels, and "lessons of history." Results of a global participatory process t o produce global normative scenario sketches are also included. (C) 1998 Am erican Council for the United Nations University.