Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know? Simple. We're not ready for the millenium...
...year 2000 has always been The Future. Whenever someone talks about The Future, we know it's some time A.Y2K (Anno Millenia). 2000 is a watershed year in our history, our culture and our consciousness--a cause for both hope and concern...
...farther. Stanley Kubrick immortalized the year some people feel is the real millennial year in his movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," a film clearly set in The Future. In it, HAL, a dangerous supercomputer, shows that technology could be destructive, warning us to be careful as we progress. (You know, I've always thought those new iMacs looked a little suspicious...
...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...
...turning back the clock to 1980 is something we don't have to be frightened of. We've been there before and we know what it's about. And this will give us the chance to make the decade even better...