Global future laboratory

Laboratório virtual para explorar efeitos futuros de premissas ambientais.

When watching news about the changing climate, population growth, pollution

and living conditions, you work with projections based on assumptions about extending historic structure into the future. The factors considered frequently interact in a complex pattern.

Global Future laboratory is a simulation program the purpose of which is to take the complicity into account. It is not aiming to give precise forecasts, but to introduce you to the complexity of the subject and give you an opportunity to play with your own assumptions. By means of the model you can explore your own hypotheses about interrelationships and required actions. It is built on the same basic assumptions as the simpler Global Future Introduction app, but contains more variables and relationships, represents a more realistic picture of reality and invites you to explore your personal assumptions in detail. The underlying model implies a basic structure you can read more about in an included section. There is also a separate text section including predesigned experiments discussing alternative scenarios and results computed.

Even though the backbone of the app is a mathematical model, the use of the app require little mathematical knowledge.