Global Megacrisis Survey

Petersen John , “A New End, A New Beginning,” in Innovation and Creativity in a Complex World (Bethesda: World Future Society, 2009)

Glenn Jerome C. , “The Millennium Project,” in Innovation and Complexity in a Complex World (Bethesda: World Future Society, 2009)

Halal William E. , Technology's Promise (London: Palgrave-Macmillan 2008)

Halal William E. , “The Life Cycle of Evolution,” Futures Research Quarterly (2004), Vol. 9, No. 1

Zogby John , The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream (New York: Random House, 2008)

Cascio Jamais , “Get Smarter,” The Atlantic (July-August 2009)

Global Economic Prospects: Managing the Next Wave of Globalization (World Bank, 2009)

Carr Nicholas , The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google (W. W. Norton, 2008). Offers a well-informed critique of Internet optimists

Marien Michael , Democracy in the 21st Century: Forward or Backward? (Future Survey Mini-Guide #3, World Future Society, February 2008). A broad survey of the problems of democracy and today's ill-informed citizens

Rees Martin , Our Final Century: The 50/50 Threat to Humanity's Survival (Basic Books, 2003). The UK Royal Astronomer and Cambridge professor covers a broad range of science/ technology risks

Diamond Jared , Collapse: How Societies Chose to Fail or Succeed (Penguin, 2005). A very readable bestseller for more than six months, by a UCLA geography professor, suggesting that “it could happen here.”

MacCracken Michael C. (eds), Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change: Exploring the Real Risks (Earthscan, February 2008). Explains why climate change may well be more severe than projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 report

Campbell Kurt M. (ed), Climatic Cataclysm: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications (Brookings Institution Press, July 2008). Provides three very scary scenarios

Romm Joseph J. , Hell and High Water (Morrow, March 2007). Three more very scary scenarios of hellish global warming and rising sea levels