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A variety of problems have combined to move the global civilization toward a collapse. The key drivers of collapse, according to Stanford Un...

As history is nowhere near its end, the sustainability of democracy depends on a substantial reform of its current form. This may resemble t...

ATROCITY FORECASTING PROJECT The project has the overall purpose of enhancing capacity for forecasting mass atrocities and genocide globally...

If current trends continue, we’ll be dealing with three times as much waste by the end of this century as we are now, warns the World Bank. ...

A poll of 67,806 respondents from 65 countries found that the U.S. won by a landslide the dubious distinction of being considered the “great...

State formation has been the driving force behind civil and interstate war -- a fact woefully missing from much of the popular debate about ...

Building more inclusionary power structures -- not necessarily through electoral democracy -- represents the most viable strategy for new st...

Gerald Joyce of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, frets that as the boundaries blur, biologists are now going to be di...

The chances of a U.S.-Chinese crisis in the coming years are low, but they are not negligible, and they are made more troubling by the risk ...

Top 10 Disappearing Futures http://www.wfs.org/futurist/2013-issues-futurist/september-october-2013-vol-47-no-5/top-10-disappearing-futures

The advent of wearable smartphones could accelerate the disappearance of endangered languages, but also lowering of economic barriers and of...

Adults will no longer need to visit a doctor’s office for routine checkups. By 2030, adult visits to a doctor for an annual physical, blood ...

Percentage of U.S. adults who considered homosexual relations morally acceptable in 2002:  38 Percentage who considered homosexual relations...

Estimated number of humans who have been born in the last 50,000 years (when modern humans appeared):  107 billion Percentage of humans ever...

40 maps that explain the world http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/12/40-maps-that-explain-the-world/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/07/map-more-than-half-of-humanity-lives-within-this-circle/ Map: More than half of...

The process is fraught with challenges. At the beginning of the process, what these countries have to sell to their customers is their relat...

Since the Industrial Revolution, there have always been countries where comparative advantage in international trade has been rooted in low ...

The arcs along which nations rise and fall vary in length and slope. China's has been long, as far as these things go, lasting for more ...

GLOBAL RELATIONS   Who Authorized Preparations for War with China? – (Yale Journal of International Affairs – June 12, 2013) In this detaile...

After the end of World War II, there was an abundance of low-cost labor in Japan, so that’s where manufacturing moved. But as the Japanese e...

The Limits of the Earth — Part 2: Expanding the Limits http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/04/18/the-limits-of-the-earth-par...

Mega trends http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2013/02/20130218_2020.jpg

The economic costs of pollution have been the focus of various government-backed studies in China. A recent study by the Chinese Academy of ...

Relativity in the Balance of Power There is a paradox in all of this. While the United States has committed many errors, the fragmentation o...

The Long Peace “Nothing can be more gentle than man in his primitive state,” declared Rousseau in the 18th century. A century earlier, Thoma...

http://longnow.org/ The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the  Clock  and  Library projects , as well as to become t...

To See Humans’ Progress, Zoom Out Steven Pinker  is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and the author of " The Bet...

Steven Pinker changes the world twice in his new book, THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE: Why Violence Has Declined. First, he presents exhaus...

 The media love sudden drama, even as the grand trend lines of history are often gradual and economic. The media love wars. The Middle East ...

http://www.nesta.org.uk/news and features/13for2013/prediction will become_ubiquitous Predictive tools will move from being of marginal int...

Tomorrow’s world: A guide to the next 150 years http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130102-tomorrows-world

World Energy Report: the Good, the Bad and the really, truly Ugly The 2012 World Energy Outlook report provides a grave depiction of our ene...

110 Prédictions pour les 110 prochaines années – Popular Mechanics Popular Mechanics pour fêter ses 110 ans propose 110 prédictions pour les...

The top risks of 2013 Click  HERE  for Eurasia Group's complete report 1. Emerging markets  -- The era of emerging market abundanc...

Global Risks 2013 - Eighth Edition http://www.weforum.org/reports

The Long-Term Threat The greatest danger is one that will not be faced for decades but that is lurking out there. The United States was buil...

The median household income of Americans in 2011 was $49,103. Adjusted for inflation, the median income is just below what it was in 1989 an...

We might not like the idea of paying taxes, but without it, democracies will struggle to function, and will be unable to provide public serv...

Due to massive public debt governments are recognising that they can no longer afford generous pensions and the European Union Commission ha...

Middle Class Of course, these two drivers of change, populations and economies, are having significant impact on us all. There's more ec...

Populations We are confronted by the evidence of our rapidly changing world every day and are contributing to its change each in our own way...

Futures studies work best when they're vague and build upon current trends to their logical (and often extreme) conclusion. Along the wa...

In 1997, the U.S. intelligence outfit charged with long-term strategic thinking made some  startling predictions : by 2010, North Korea woul...

According to the elite newspapers and journals of opinion, the future of foreign affairs mainly rests on ideas: the moral impetus for humani...

The National Intelligence Council has issued  Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds , “intended to stimulate thinking about the rapid and v...

The U.S. energy situation also will improve dramatically under most scenarios, and it can be expected to be able to supply most of its energ...

How the Internet of everything will change the world November 8, 2012 Internet of Everything (credit: Cisco) From the Internet of  Things (I...