The 21st Century: a better world or a brave new world
Federico Mayor
(Director General of UNESCO from 1987‐1999)
Jérôme Bindé
(Director of UNESCO’s Analysis and Forecasting Offive, 7 Place de Fontenoy, BP‐307, 75352 Paris 07 SP, France)
408
Abstract
Based on the world report, The World Ahead: our Future in the Making, this article identifies four major challenges which we face at the dawn of the 21st century: peace, social inequality, sustainable development and long‐term global planning. It argues that society needs to be rebuilt and envisages it as an international democracy founded on four pillars or contracts – social, natural, cultural and ethical – and looks at some of the preconditions and costs.
Keywords
Citation
Mayor, F. and Bindé, J. (1999), "The 21st Century: a better world or a brave new world", Foresight, Vol. 1 No. 5, pp. 389-391. https://doi.org/10.1108/14636689910802287
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1999, Company