{"id":15166,"date":"2015-06-30T07:54:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T14:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=15166"},"modified":"2015-06-30T09:20:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T16:20:43","slug":"the-millennium-projects-2015-16-state-of-the-future-report-on-the-prospects-of-the-global-outlook-to-be-released-july-31st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/the-millennium-projects-2015-16-state-of-the-future-report-on-the-prospects-of-the-global-outlook-to-be-released-july-31st","title":{"rendered":"The Millennium Project\u2019s \u201c2015\u221216 State of the Future\u201d report on the Prospects of the Global Outlook to be released July 31st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c0sfs18vpIw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"responsiveNews\">Washington, DC (PRWEB) June 30, 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsiveNews\">Another 2.3 billion people are expected to be added to the planet in just 35 years. \u201cBy 2050, new systems for food, water, energy, education, health, economics, and global governance will be needed to prevent massive and complex human and environmental disasters,\u201d explains Jerome Glenn, CEO of The Millennium Project. As Pope Francis said in His Encyclical Letter, \u201cHalfway measures simply delay the inevitable disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsiveNews\">The \u201c2015\u221216 State of the Future\u201d reviews the global situation and future prospects in a broad range of areas from environment to business and technology, and global ethics. Its executive summary states that:<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsiveNews\">\u201cThe Millennium Project\u2019s futures research shows that most of these problems are preventable and a far better future than today is possible. Brilliant insights, policy and social innovations, scientific and technological breakthroughs, and new kinds of leadership are emerging around the world. The interactions among future artificial intelligences, countless new lifeforms from synthetic biology, proliferation of nano-molecular assemblies, and robotics could produce a future barely recognizable to science fiction today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsiveNews\">The future can be much better than most pessimists understand, but it could also be far worse than most optimists are willing to explore. We need serious, coherent, and integrated understandings of mega-problems and opportunities to identify and implement strategies on the scale necessary to address global challenges. This report should be used as a reference to further that understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsiveNews\">The \u201c2015\u221216 State of the Future\u201d contains sections on 15 Global Challenges, a State of the Future Index that assesses where humanity is winning and losing, and a special study on \u201cFuture Work\/Technology 2050.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsiveNews\">\u201cAfter 18 years of producing the \u201cState of the Future\u201d reports, it is increasingly clear that humanity has the resources to address its global challenges,\u201d says Elizabeth Florescu, Director of Research for The Millennium Project, \u201cbut it is not clear that an integrated set of global and local strategies will be implemented together timely enough and on the scale necessary to build a better future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsiveNews\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.net\/Redirect.aspx?id=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5taWxsZW5uaXVtLXByb2plY3Qub3Jn\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Millennium Project<\/a> is a global participatory think tank connecting 56 Nodes around the world that identify important long-range challenges and strategies, and initiate and conduct foresight studies, workshops, symposiums, and advanced training. Its mission is to improve thinking about the future and make it available through a variety of media for feedback to accumulate wisdom about the future for better decisions today. It produces the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.net\/Redirect.aspx?id=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5taWxsZW5uaXVtLXByb2plY3Qub3JnL21pbGxlbm5pdW0vcHVibGljYXRpb25zLmh0bWw=\" rel=\"nofollow\">annual \u201cState of the Future\u201d reports, the \u201cFutures Research Methodology\u201d series,<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.net\/Redirect.aspx?id=aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVtcC5vcmc=\" rel=\"nofollow\">Global Futures Intelligence System (GFIS),<\/a> and special studies. Over 4,500 futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities have participated in The Millennium Project\u2019s research since its inception, in 1992. The Millennium Project was selected among the top ten think tanks in the world for new ideas and paradigms by the 2013 and 2014 University of Pennsylvania\u2019s GoTo Think Tank Index, and 2012 Computerworld Honors Laureate for its contributions to collective intelligence systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsiveNews\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2015\/07\/prweb12821034.htm\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (PRWEB) June 30, 2015 Another 2.3 billion people are expected to be added to the planet in just 35 years. \u201cBy 2050, new systems for food, water, energy, education, health, economics, and global governance will be needed to prevent massive and complex human and environmental disasters,\u201d explains Jerome Glenn, CEO of The Millennium [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1759,31],"tags":[1971,1970],"class_list":["post-15166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-governance","category-policy","tag-state-of-the-future-report","tag-the-millennium-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}