Scenarios, trends, and forecasts that are helpful for strategic foresight and futures research.



Scenario Studies
In the Long Run: Long-Term Thinking in Business (Berlin, Annual Conference)
Twelve slide presentations on long term foresight by leading business futurists.
United Nations Global Environment Outlook (GEO) 3.
Scenarios to 2002-2032. Some things may get worse before they get better.


Trend and Forecast Studies
Britain 2020.
Guardian projections for the world of 2020.
Global Trends 2015: Dialog with Non-Governmental Experts on the Future, NIC, 2000
Good effort by National Intelligence Council of the CIA.
Internet Predictions Database (Pew Internet & Elon Univ.)
Expert and lay predictions and conjectures on the long term future of the internet. (Janna Anderson)
Project 2020: Mapping the Global Future, NIC, 2005
Outstanding interdisciplinary futures work by NIC of the CIA.
Shaping Tomorrow (Michael Jackson, UK)
Subscription database of 1800+ futures trends. Free trial.
TechCast Forecasts (Bill Halal, GWU)
Emerging technologies 2001-2030, nanotech, social barriers to technological change.


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