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...distance, a temporal horizon line. In recent years the young have begun to calculate how old they will be at the turn of the millennium. Older people have wondered if they would live to see it. The millennium has also served as a projected launch platform for humankind's most ambitious, far-reaching projects. The year 2000 would be the Year One of a better age, the decisive border at which the Future would start. Now that the destination of 2000 is approaching with a kind of dopplered urgency, people are bound to wonder what the future will look like...
...after he began the project, Koepp felt inspired to think about the millennium. "We decided to do this issue now because the '90s are really the advent season of the new millennium. In the relative scale of things, it's just a few minutes before midnight, and time for humankind to start preparing for what lies beyond," he says. "The year 2000 has always been so symbolic of an idealized future, the better world that we'd like to see. Considering the rapid pace of change, we can't predict all the news that the 21st century will bring...
...drawing a line connecting the individual to the global, Gore here and there sounds as if his inner Ancient Mariner had lingered too long in adult- children seminars with John Bradshaw, and humankind might 12-step the earth green again. Still, the vocabularies of the recovery movement open interesting windows upon a civilization that is dysfunctional, much given to denial, addiction, co-dependency and brutal nature abuse...
...future (to use Gore-esque imagery) remains as dark as a mine shaft, humankind has at least begun to notice the alarming accumulation of dead canaries about its feet. In part because of his son's accident -- and perhaps in part because of George Bush's overwhelming popularity in the polls after Desert Storm -- Al Gore decided to sit out the 1992 campaign. Instead of Gore for President, the public has his book, which is itself an act of leadership...
...view of man obviously depends on our view of God. The Age of Reason exalted humankind but still admitted God as a sort of supreme philosopher-king or chairman of the board who ultimately presided over the glories achieved by reason and science. The humanist 19th century voted him out. It increasingly saw reason and science irreconcilably opposed to religion, which would fade away...