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Jerome C. Glenn Books

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Jerome C. Glenn is an American futurist and co-founder of The Millennium Project, an independent think tank focused on global futures research.

Known for: State of the Future, The Foresight Guide

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Understanding the 15 Global Challenges

When we began developing the Millennium Project’s framework for global foresight, our team realized that humanity was not confronting separate issues in isolation. Poverty, water scarcity, climate change, governance, and terrorism—these were not disparate phenomena, but interconnected expressions of...

From State of the Future

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Sustainable Development and Resource Stewardship

Sustainability is the heartbeat of the *State of the Future*. For decades, we have pursued material growth without properly accounting for ecological costs. Yet, what is becoming evident is that there are no purely environmental solutions—only integrated policies that marry sustainability with devel...

From State of the Future

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The Roots and Evolution of Futures Studies

Every field begins with a question. For futures studies, that question was simple but radical: can we improve how humanity prepares for change? The origins of formal foresight emerge in the mid-twentieth century, when rapid technological advances and global tensions demanded more systematic ways of ...

From The Foresight Guide

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Systems Thinking and the Structure of Change

The world isn’t a collection of isolated problems. It’s an intricate ecosystem where every decision ripples outward in ways we rarely predict. Systems thinking invites us to see these interdependencies. It asks us to replace linear cause-and-effect with circular feedback—the kind that governs climat...

From The Foresight Guide

About Jerome C. Glenn

Jerome C. Glenn is an American futurist and co-founder of The Millennium Project, an independent think tank focused on global futures research. He has worked extensively in futures studies, science and technology policy, and global strategic planning.

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