1997 State of the Future


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Summary

1. Introduction and Background

1.1 The Millennium Project: Concept and Objectives
1.2 Millennium Project Nodes
1.3 Products
1.4 The First Year's Operations

2. The Issues - Global Look-Out Study

2.1 Global Issues, Actions, and Comments
2.2 Mapping the Issues
2.3 Observations and Common Themes

3. Scenarios

3.1 Objectives
3.2 Scenario Construction
3.3 Newly Identified Issues
3.4 A Normative Scenario Example

4. Scanning

4.1 Introduction and Design of the Experiment
4.2 The World Wide Web
4.3 Major Search Engines
4.4 Preliminary Test
4.5 Analysis
4.6. Future Research

5. Additional Methodological Issues

5.1 Apparently Incredible Developments
5.2 Improved Decision Making
5.3 Complex Adaptive Modeling
5.4. Meta Worlds

6. Next Steps for the Millennium Project

Appendices

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations


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