The Millenium Project

THE MILLENIUM PROJECT is a fascinating website devoted to assessing the current state of progress and future probabilities in various aspects of human enterprise, such as global poverty levels, wars and violence, economic health, and so forth. The people who do the research, writing, assessing and predicting are highly regarded scholarly experts and geniuses, and so forth, but it may be that the site could benefit from more input from mister and missus ordinary, every day citizen, whose fate it is, after all, that the genius experts are debating. The current prognosis is positive sounding in some areas, not so positive in others. Worldwide levels of violence and warfare are down, evidently, and so is poverty, and educational levels are up, supposedly, but the environment is not significatnly healtheir than it has been. Altogether, the outlook for the future of humanity is fairly optimistic, and this is comforting, considering the people making this assessment are people who have spent their careers studying the matter. But of course this website is nothing more than pure speculation, as all future forecasting is, pseudoscience, in a sense, and all these well educated practitioners must surely realize this. No more scientific, really, than your average UFO website, but interesting nevertheless, and worthy of undertaking, just like all the UFO speculation. After all, we humans are the only animal on this planet capable of engaging in speculative thought about its own future, so, why not do it!