Millennium Project - An International Network

The Millennium Project is an international network of over 1000 futurists, scholars, business executives and planners, scientists and policymakers from more than 50 countries. This international network is a world-wide think tank dedicated to exploring global futures by interviewing and surveying individuals in corporations, universities, NGO's, UN organizations, and governments to understand world change and to identify actions to reach the best possible future for humanity as a whole.

A truly international perspective, free from single agendas The Millennium Project is organised into Nodes (Helsinki node). Each Node consists of a group of individuals and institutions that identify creative and advanced experts to participate in Millennium Project research. They interconnect global and local perspectives. The Project employs a mix of standard futures research methods and new tools the Project has developed itself to investigate the leading factors shaping the future of the world.

The annual State of the Future report provides an assessment of the global situation and future trends; normative, exploratory, and very-long-range scenarios, and annotated bibliographies of hundreds of scenarios; special studies on future issues of science and technology, environmental security, and analysis of international policies and goals. Each State of the Future report improves and builds on the previous edition. Each report addresses the international situation on the following 15 Global Challenges, with sensitivity to regional perspectives, prospects for the future, policies and actions to address them and indicators to measure progress.

You can buy the 2009 State of the Future from the Millennium Project web site for $49.95.