The Next Millennium: What Now?
What do the next 1000 years hold for humanity? Fourteen experts from fields as diverse as language and sports sketch a view of the world to come.
Levels 1 to 8
New Zealand by 2020
Professor Lloyd Geering looks into the future, and comments on the key changes we will be likely to witness - secularisation and individualism. He explores the challenges they pose to us and our society.
New Zealand Futures Trust
The New Zealand Futures Trust is an independent non-profit organisation whose members aim to identify developments and changes affecting the lives and aspirations of New Zealanders, and to promote debate about possible futures.
Overpopulation.com
Challenges the commonly propounded view of overpopulation and lack of resources. Useful for Values Exploration.
Levels 1 to 8
Six Billion and Beyond
In late 1999, the world's population surpassed the six billion mark. How
is rapid population growth affecting both developed and developing
nations? What impact will an additional billion people have on our
world, future generations and the rest of life on earth? This in-depth
site focuses on the issues of population, reproductive
health and the environment.
Levels 1 to 8
This material has been produced by UNITEC Institute of Technology
under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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