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Third millennium -- Forecasts

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• Third millennium

• Twenty-first century -- Forecasts

• Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project, Based on Consultations With Nongovernmental Experts Around the World (2004), by National Intelligence Council (U.S.) (HTML and PDF at dni.gov)
• The Future of English? A Guide to Forecasting the Popularity of the English Language in the 21st Century (c2000), by David Graddol (PDF with commentary at britishcouncil.org)
• Future War: An Assessment of Aerospace Campaigns in 2010 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1996), by Jeffery R. Barnett (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• Historied Thought, Constructed World: A Conceptual Primer for the Turn of the Millennium (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Joseph Margolis (HTML at UC Press)
• Racing Toward 2001: The Forces Shaping America's Religious Future (c1992), by Russell Chandler (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Global Security Concerns: Anticipating the Twenty-First Century (MAxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1996), ed. by K. P. Magyar (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• Anno Domini 2071 (London: W. Tegg, 1871), by P. Harting, ed. by Alexander V. W. Bikkers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905), by T. Baron Russell
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist (Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1906), by T. Baron Russell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Wonderful World Tomorrow: What It Will Be Like, by Herbert W. Armstrong (HTML and PDF with commentary at thetrumpet.com)
• Armed Conflict in the 21st Century: The Information Revolution and Post-Modern Warfare (2000), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (1999), by Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins (PDF files and partial HTML with commentary at natcap.org)
• Global 2000 Revisited: What Shall We Do?, by Gerald O. Barney, contrib. by Jane Blewett and Kristen R. Barney (HTML and PDF at millenniuminstitute.net)

• Global Trends, by National Intelligence Council (U.S.) (full serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Break Up the Anthropocene (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by Steve Mentz (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Battlefield of the Future: 21st Century Warfare Issues (1995), ed. by Barry R. Schneider and Lawrence E. Grinter (HTML at af.mil)
• Chinese Views of Future Warfare, ed. by Michael Pillsbury (HTML at af.mil)

• The Last Man (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1826), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • all volumes: hypermedia with commentary at Romantic Circles
  • all volumes: Gutenberg text
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Last Man (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1833), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Kun Nukkuja Herää (When the Sleeper Wakes in Finnish; 1907), by H. G. Wells, trans. by Jalmari Finne (Gutenberg text)
• The Sleeper Awakes (London and Glasgow: Collins' Clear-Type Press, ca. 1921), by H. G. Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Sleeper Awakes: A Revised Edition of "When the Sleeper Wakes", by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• The Sleeper Awakes: A Revised Edition of "When the Sleeper Wakes" (London: T. Nelson and Sons, ca. 1910), by H. G. Wells
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• When the Sleeper Wakes, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• When the Sleeper Wakes (London and New York: Harper and Bros., 1899), by H. G. Wells
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• "2002": Childlife One Hundred Years From Now (Chicago: Jamieson-Higgins Co., c1902), by Laura Dayton Fessenden, illust. by R. J. Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian E. Ahnert, Catherine Nicole Coleman, and Scott Weingart (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Our Brave New World: Essays on the Impact of September 11, ed. by Wladyslaw Pleszczynski, contrib. by Anne Applebaum, Byron York, Daniel Pipes, Roger Kimball, James Bowman, John Podhoretz, and John Corry (PDF files at Hoover Institution)

• A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), ed. by James J. Bono, Tim Dean, and Ewa Płonowska Ziarek (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1827), by Mrs. Loudon (all volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (second edition, 3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1828), by Mrs. Loudon
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust
• The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (possibly based on first and second editions, 1827 and 1828), by Mrs. Loudon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML, and Librivox audio)