Word: happening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Post Office has a clock counting down the time to the year 2000. Does anyone know what will happen when it reaches zero? NBC is promoting Y2K The Movie as part of its November sweeps week. And the only bug more famous than Jiminy Cricket is on the minds of every computer scientist, air traffic controller and politician...
...while everyone seems to be making a big deal about what will happen the precise millisecond when December 31st, 1999 turns into January 1st, 2000, I'm not worried one bit. And it's not because I've stockpiled canned goods in my apocalypse bunker or that I've taken all of my money out of the bank and put it under my mattress in fear that bank records will be lost...
...because I know what is going to happen. When the calendar changes, it'll read 1980, not 2000. The clock strikes 12, the years run down, hickory dickory dock...
...last 10 years, as 2000 has drawn closer, we have stopped dreaming about The Future. There was just too much that needed to happen before we'd be in a position to achieve the hopes we originally had for it. We aren't close to the Donna Reed 1950s Space Age ideal. In fact, Donna Reed largely doesn't exist anymore. As fewer women choose to be housewives, the need to create Rosie the Robot has ironically fallen by the wayside. Flying cars aren't anywhere near the horizon. We're just getting started with alternative automobile fuel sources like...
...only hit a millennium once before, and the records from that one don't specify much about the event. We really don't know what'll happen when the end of December rolls around. That's the whole idea behind the Y2K bug hype. The possibilities for disaster are real enough to scare...