The AC-UNU Millennium Project has lived up to its reputation as a worldwide guiding light for futures studies by its production of this outstanding work. This year's report comprises three levels - a six-page print Executive Summary, and an 85-page print distillation of the mass of detailed knowledge found in a 1500-page CD-ROM. Together they allow a futurist to investigate to any desired level of detail the thoughts, predictions, and recommendations of the more than 1000 people who have contributed to the Project so far, including the 400 who took part in this year's discussions. In addition to detailed and updated analyses of the 15 Global Challenges already identified, the report presents the current status of the State of the Future Index (a measure of the near-term future of the human condition), comments on world leaders' talks at the UN Millennium Summit, and special sections on future issues of science and technology, sustainable development, and environmental security. The report has also greatly expanded its scenario collection, which now has over 400 scenarios or scenario sets, classified into domains.
The world of the future faces many problems. This report is an indispensable aid in organizing any attack on them.
