Preparing for the twenty-first century

Prologue : old challenges and new challenges

The demographic explosion

The communications and financial revolution and the rise of the multinational corporation

World agriculture and the biotechnology revolution

Robotics, automation, and a new industrial revolution

The dangers to our natural environment

The future of the nation-state

The Japanese "plan" for a post-2000 world

India and China

Winners and losers in the developing world

The erstwhile USSR and its crumbled empire

Europe and the future

The American dilemma

Preparing for the twenty-first century.