Jerome Clayton Glenn

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The building of the environment will have ubiquitous artificial intelligence imbedded in it. Humans will be using nanotechnology on and in their bodies with transceivers making a continuum of the built environment as represented in human bodies and minds. Before we get to this age of “Conscious-Technology” we must address the challenges below.</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>15 Global Challenges</B></I></div> <div>  </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>1.  </B></I><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-01.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I><B>How can sustainable development be achieved for all?</B></I></U></A><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-01.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I> </I></U></A></div> <div> <I><B>2.  </B></I><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-02.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I><B>How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict?</B></I></U></A><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-02.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I> </I></U></A></div> <div> <I><B>3.  </B></I><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-03.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I><B>How can population growth and resources be brought into balance?</B></I></U></A></div> <div> <I><B>4.  </B></I><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-04.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I><B>How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes?</B></I></U></A></div> <div> <I><B>5.  </B></I><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-05.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I><B>How can policymaking be made more sensitive to global long-term perspectives?</B></I></U></A><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-05.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I> </I></U></A></div> <div> <I><B>6.  </B></I><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-06.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I><B>How can the global convergence of information and communications technologies work for everyone?</B></I></U></A><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-06.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I> </I></U></A></div> <div> <I><B>7.  </B></I><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-07.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I><B>How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between rich and poor?</B></I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-08.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I><B>8.  How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune micro-organisms be reduced?</B></I></U></A><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-08.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I> </I></U></A></div> <div> <I><B>9.  </B></I><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-09.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I><B>How can the capacity to decide be improved as the nature of work and institutions change?</B></I></U></A><I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>10. </B></I><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-10.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I><B>How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts, terrorism, and the use of weapons</B></I></U></A></div> <div> <I><B>       </B></I><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-10.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I><B>of mass  destruction?</B></I></U></A><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-10.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I> </I></U></A></div> <div> <I><B>11. </B></I><A HREF="http://http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-11.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://http://www.millennium-project.org"><U><I><B>How can the changing status of women help improve the human condition?</B></I></U></A><A HREF="http://http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-11.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://http://www.millennium-project.org"><U><I> </I></U></A></div> <div> <I><B>12. </B></I><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-12.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I><B>How can transnational organized crime networks be stopped from becoming more powerful and sophisticated </B></I></U></A></div> <div> <I><B>      </B></I><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-12.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I><B>global enterprises?</B></I></U></A><I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>13. </B></I><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-13.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I><B>How can growing energy demands be met safely and efficiently? </B></I></U></A></div> <div> <I><B>14. </B></I><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-14.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I><B>How can scientific and technological breakthroughs be accelerated to improve the human condition?</B></I></U></A><I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>15. </B></I><A HREF="http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-15.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.millennium-project.org/millen"><U><I><B>How can ethical considerations become more routinely incorporated into global decisions?</B></I></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>The emerging knowledge economy will require a far more intelligent and knowledgeable world labor force than </I></div> <div> <I>did the industrial or agricultural economies. In this address global trends will be discussed that are leading to a</I></div> <div> <I>more complex and rapidly changing world that gives rise to new challenges and opportunities for social science education. For example, as the human autonomic nervous system takes care of the management of the body,</I></div> <div> <I> freeing the mind to invent the future, so too, future urban infrastructures will become like autonomic nervous </I></div> <div> <I>systems for civilizations, freeing humanity to go beyond our current imagination. These capabilities will include resilience systems that can anticipate, respond and recover from disasters such as Tsunamis, massive migrations</I></div> <div> <I> due to water shortages, prolonged electric and/or Internet outages, financial crashes, and wars.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <I>Our bodies will be increasingly augmented by technology, global brains will emerge from the Internet, and </I></div> <div> <I>all will be connected to the more intelligently built environment to eventually become a more</I></div> <div> <I>“conscious-technology.” As rural cultures did not anticipate megacities and have become amazed by</I></div> <div> <I> their capabilities, so too megacity cultures might not anticipate the emerging conscious-technology capabilities.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I> </I></div> <div> <I>Scientific knowledge of brain functioning and potentials for improving human intelligence are increasing </I></div> <div> <I>rapidly. Mind-building could become more popular than body building. If Moore’s Law continues, then half the</I></div> <div> <I>world could have portable devices with the processing power of a human brain in less than 25 years. The</I></div> <div> <I>work-at-home knowledge economy will make tele-education of children more acceptable to parents' </I></div> <div> <I>potentially blurring work, learning, and play. </I></div> <bR> <div> <I> </I></div> <div> <I>Just as we write lines of computer code to create software that changes the way we live, so too will we </I></div> <div> <I>write lines of genetic code to create new life forms. They may produce energy, medicine, and merge with </I></div> <div> <I>some mechanical and other biological systems making nanosensors and other parts of our future </I></div> <div> <I>infrastructures more effective. </I></div> <div> <I> </I></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>About the Keynote Speaker</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Jerome C. Glenn</B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Calibri" ><I><B> is the co-founder (1996) and director of </B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Calibri" ><I><B>The Millennium Project (on global futures research) </B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>of the World Federation of United Nations Associations </B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Calibri" ><I><B>and co-author with Ted Gordon of the annual</B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Calibri" ><I><B> State of the</B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B> Future of the Millennium Project</B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Calibri" ><I><B> for the past twelve years. He was the Washington, DC representative for the United Nations </B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>University as executive director of the American Council for the UNU 1988-2007.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>He has over 35 years of Futures Research experience working for governments, international organizations, and private industry in</B></I></div> <div> <I><B> Science & Technology Policy, Environmental Security, Economics, Education, Defense, Space, Futures Research Methodology, International Telecommunications, and Decision Support Systems with the Committee for the Future, Hudson Institute, Future Options Room, </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>and the Millennium Project. He has addressed or keynoted conferences for over 300 government departments, universities, NGOs,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B> UN organizations, and/or corporations around the world on a variety of future-oriented topics.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Recent research includes: </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Calibri" ><I><B>Global Energy Collective Intelligence, National Future Strategy Units, Future Education</B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B> and Learning Possibilities by 2030, Global Energy Scenarios for 2020, the Future of Ethics, 2025 Science and Technology Scenarios, Middle East Peace Scenarios, and Military R&D Priorities to Reduce Health and </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Environmental Impacts of Nanotechnology. </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Glenn was the Deputy Director of Partnership for Productivity International involved in national strategic planning, institutional </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>design, training, and evaluation in economic development in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America and </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>created CARINET in 1983 as the leading computer network in the developing world subsequently bought by CGNet. He has been an independent consultant for the World Bank, UNDP, UNU, UNESCO, FAO, UNEP, US/EPA, USAID, and several governments and</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>corporations.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>He invented the</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Calibri" ><I><B> "Futures Wheel" </B></I></FONT><I><B>a futures assessment technique, </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Calibri" ><I><B>Futuristic Curriculum Development</B></I></FONT><I><B>, and concepts </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>such as conscious-technology, transinstutions, tele-nations, management by understanding, definition of environmental </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>security, feminine brain drain, just-in-time knowledge and learning, information warfare, feelysis, nodes as a management </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>concept for interconnecting global and local views and actions, and coined the term futuring in 1973. </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Calibri" ><I><B>Saturday Review </B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>named him among the most unusually gifted leaders of America for his pioneering work in Tropical Medicine (national Leprosy system while a Peace Corp Volunteer), Future-Oriented Education, and Participatory </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Decision Making Systems in 1974. He was instrumental in naming the first Space Shuttle the Enterprise</B></I></div> <div> <I><B> and banning the first space weapon (FOBS) in SALT II.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Glenn has published over 100 future-oriented articles</B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Calibri" ><I><B> in such as the </B></I></FONT><I><B>Nikkei, ADWEEK, International Tribune,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>LEADERS, New York Times, McGraw-Hill’s Contemporary Learning Series, Current, Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Journal, Foresight, Futures, Technological Forecasting, Futures Research Quarterly, and The Futurist. </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>He is editor of Futures Research Methodology versions 1.0 and 2.0, author of Future Mind: Merging the Mystical and the </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Technological in the 21st Century (1989 & 1994), Linking the Future: Findhorn, Auroville, Arcosanti (1979), and co-author of</B></I></div> <div> <I><B> Space Trek: The Endless Migration (1978 & 1979).</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Glenn has a BA in philosophy from American University, an MA in Teaching Social Science - Futuristics </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>from Antioch Graduate School of Education (now Antioch University New England), and was a doctoral </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>candidate in general futures research at the University of Massachusetts. </B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Calibri" ><I><B>He received the Donella Meadows Metal, Kondratieff Metal, Emerald Citation of Excellence, </B></I></FONT><I><B>honorary professorship and doctor’s degrees from two universities </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>in South America (Universidad Ricardo Palma and Universidad Franz Tamayo) and is a leading boomerang</B></I></div> <div> <I><B> stunt man. </B></I></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>