Education
Glenn graduated from American University with a Bachelor in Philosophy (1968) and Antioch University New England with a Master of Arts in Teaching Social Science (1971).
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The 2012 State of the Future CD contains about 10,000 pages of The Millennium Project's 16 years of cumulative research and methods. It is a concise, readable overview of the global situation, problems, solutions, and prospects for the future. It covers the global landscape with two-page overviews with regional considerations of 15 global challenges such as energy, food, science & technology, ethics, development, water, organized crime, health, decisionmaking, gender relations, demographics, war & peace, and others. These together with the executive summary are ideal for busy executives, thought leaders, corporate strategic planners, public policy experts, policy advisers, non-profit issues organizations, teachers and professors of world issues, and anyone interested in a global overview of our prospects for the future with discussions of problems and potential solutions. Readers will learn how their interests fit into the global situation and how the global situation may affect them and their interests. This is the 16th report in an annual series intended to provide a context for global thinking and improved understanding of global issues, opportunities, challenges, and strategies. The 2012 State of the Future finds the world is getting richer, healthier, better educated, living longer, and is more peaceful and better connected; yet half the world is potentially unstable. Food prices are rising, water tables are falling, corruption and organized crime are increasing, environmental viability for our life support is diminishing, debt and economic insecurity are increasing, climate change continues, and the gap between the rich and poor is widening dangerously.'' says co-author and The Millennium Project Director, Jerome C. Glenn. The State of the Future reports are produced by the Millennium Project with its 46 Nodes (groups of futurists and organizations) around the world, which collects, feeds back, and assesses insights from creative and knowledgeable people on emerging crises, opportunities, strategic priorities, and the feasibility of actions. Because the issues and solutions of our time are increasingly transnational, transinstitutional, and transdisciplinary, The Millennium Project was created as a global participatory think tank of futurists, scholars, scientists, business planners, and policymakers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities. The purposes of The Millennium Project are to assist in organizing futures research, improve thinking about the future, and make that thinking available through a variety of media for consideration in policymaking, advanced training, public education, and feedback, ideally in order to accumulate wisdom about potential futures. The Millennium Project s diversity of opinions and global view is ensured by the Nodes groups of individuals and organizations that interconnect global and local perspectives. They identify participants, conduct interviews, translate and distribute questionnaires, and conduct research and conferences. It is through their contributions that the world picture of this report and indeed all of The Millennium Project s work emerges. Through its research, publications, conferences, and Nodes, The Millennium Project helps to nurture an international collaborative spirit of free inquiry and feedback for increasing collective intelligence to improve social, technical, and environmental viability for human development.
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The 2010 State of the Future is composed of two parts: an 83-page print summary of the 2009 2010 research and an enclosed CD containing about 7,000 pages of complete details of The Millennium Project s research behind the print section, as well as studies and analysis of the previous 14 years. The State of the Future is an internationally acclaimed annual overview of the global situation, prospects, and strategies, produced by a unique global think tank with 35 Nodes around the world. Can civilization implement solutions fast enough to keep ahead of the looming challenges? The world is in a race between implementing ever-increasing ways to improve the human condition and the seemingly ever-increasing complexity and scale of global problems. This 2010 State of the Future is a world report card on the future showing where we are winning and losing. It is an extraordinarily rich distillation of information for those who care about the world and its future. Readers will learn how their interests fit into the global situation and how the global situation may affect them and their interests; and can draw information and ideas to be adapted to their unique needs. It provides a global strategic landscape that public and private policymakers may use to improve their own strategic decisionmaking and global understanding. Business executives can use the research as input to their planning. University professors, futurists, and other consultants may find this information useful in teaching and research. This 2010 edition contains chapters on collective intelligence applications, prospects for Latin America by 2030; international assessment of 15 global challenges; State of the Future Index; emerging environmental security issues, samples of futures research around the world, and an executive overview of the global situation and prospects for humanity. The CD section, which contains about 7,000 pages, is designed to serve as a reference document. It includes details and research that support the print version and includes the complete text of previous Millennium Project research: detailed description of each of the 15 Global Challenges; evolution and Computation of the State of the Future Index; global exploratory, normative, and very-long range scenarios, along with an introduction describing their development; concept and concrete applications of Collective Intelligence systems; Science and Technology, and Global Energy Scenarios and supporting studies; assessment of governance-related issues and future strategy units in selected governments; environmental security definitions, threats, related treaties; UN military doctrine on environmental issues; potential military environmental crimes and the International Criminal Court; changing environmental security military requirements in 2010 25; two studies to create indexes and maps of the status of sustainable development; an international review of the concept of creating a Partnership for Sustainable Development; study of factors required for successful implementation of futures research in decisionmaking; an Annotated Scenarios Bibliography of over 800 scenario sets totaling over 2,100 scenarios. For example, the print Chapter 1 on the 15 Global Challenges allocates two pages to each Challenge, while the CD devotes more than 1,300 pages to them. On the CD, each Challenge has a comprehensive overview, more detailed regional views, suggested indicators to assess progress or lack thereof on addressing the challenge, and a set of actions and views about those actions. The Millennium Project is designed to provide an independent global capacity that is interdisciplinary, transinstitutional, and multicultural for early alert and analysis of long-range issues, opportunities, challenges, and strategies
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Director of The Millennium Project
Glenn graduated from American University with a Bachelor in Philosophy (1968) and Antioch University New England with a Master of Arts in Teaching Social Science (1971).
He previously was the Executive Director of the American Council for the United Nations University (1988-2007) and the Deputy Director of Partnership for Productivity International. Early In 1972 Glenn invented the Futures wheel, a new method of brainstorming about the future, and in 1973 he coined the term "futuring." He then joined the Peace Corps, and as a volunteer he focused on how tropical medicine can be used to combat Leprosy. His efforts led Saturday Review to label Glenn as one of America"s most gifted leaders in a 1974 article.
Glenn helped to craft the section of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II treaty (1979) that prohibited the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics from deploying its Fractional Orbital Bombardment System.
In 1983 he created CARINET, a computer network that CGNET Services International later acquired, and through CARINET he introduced data packet switching to numerous countries in the developing world. In 1996 Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon wrote a report in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution and The Futures Group about the feasibility of establishing a futures think tank.
Later that year he co-founded The Millennium Project, an organization that evaluates 15 global challenges to the future of humanity. He authors an annual publication, State of the Future, on behalf of The Millennium Project, and in the book he uses a compilation of various methodologies in order to ensure effective forecasting.
As Director of The Millennium Project he consults governments, organizations, and corporations about his forecasting methodology and on other issues, such as defense and technology.
Glenn believes that horizontal organizational structures are more effective than vertical ones. He declared, "The future of management is not based on a hierarchical structure, but on connecting different lines of action through nodes." According to Glenn, such human cooperation is necessary in order to create collective intelligence. Consequently, he has praised Wikipedia as a model for how to use international cooperation as a way to foster collective intelligence.
Glenn also argues that the 15 global challenges that he identifies are all interrelated.
From his perspective, improvements in one area (such as access to clean water) will lead to advances in others (such as the rich-poor gap). Hence, Glenn believes that these issues need to be solved simultaneously.
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