1. The Mission
Futures Institute 2011

2. Future Challenge:
The Megacity
•Already 51% of the world's
6.9 billion people--3.5 billion
souls--live in cities; by 2050
demographers think it will
be 70%, or 6.2 billion people.
•By 2100, the United Nations
estimates, Europe's share of
the world's population will
be cut in half to 6%, while
Africa's will double to 25%.
Source: Forbes.com

3. A Global Challenge

4. Top 10 Megacities
•Tokyo, Japan: 36.7 million
•Delhi, India: 22.2 million
•Sao Paolo, Brazil: 20.3 million
•Mumbai, India: 20.0 million
•Mexico City, Mexico: 19.7 million
•New York City, USA: 19.4 million
•Shanghai, China: 16.6 million
•Kolkata, India: 15.6 million
•Dhaka, Bangladesh: 14.6 million
•Karachi, Pakistan: 13.1 million

5. Why Cities?
Cities as complex systems
Cities as microcosms
Cities are the core of the
emerging world
Cities are where the next
generation are being born
Cities are where we will spend
our foreseeable future

6. Who are we?

7. The Futures Institute
Founded in 2010 to solve major global challenges
through the strategic application of foresight.
Designed not just to think about the future, but to
identify opportunities and develop solutions to
future problems NOW.
Operating covertly under the auspices of Duke
TIP.
Leveraging an untapped resource: YOU!

8. Your Team
FRANK SPENCER
CHIEF KNOWLEDGE OFFICER
SCOTT SMITH
CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER
LAUREN PETERS
DIRECTOR - R&D

9. Our Mission
Over the next two weeks, we will tackle the
imminent crises of our megacities in five pieces.
You will learn expert research techniques,
foresight tools and methods, and gain
knowledge of critical areas to attack these
issues.
You will apply what you know, and what you can
do, to solve these issues by the end of Week 2.

10. Our Mission
Your efforts and insights will culminate in the
Grand Challenge.
By next Friday, you will bring your solutions to us
and your peers for review and selection for
funding by the Futures Institute.

11. Will you accept the
challenge?