Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long time ago, in the days when the young might get stoned and watch 2001 and listen as Also Sprach Zarathustra blared in crescendo, the millennium was heavy. It was far out. It was also far off. But now, here it is--just on the other side of Bill Clinton's new term, at the end of his famous bridge. Did Dick Morris arrange this...
...days of free music, entertainment and food under the eight big tents. At the Technology Playground, visitors can contribute to the Inaugural Webumentary and send E-mail to the Clintons and Gores on 100 computer terminals; Elmo and Bill Nye "the Science Guy" will perform for kids at the Millennium Schoolhouse nearby, and over at the American Journey Pavilion, up to 3,000 Americans can listen to others tell the story of their personal journeys, a kind of civics class for the New Age. Administration officials roll their eyes a little when asked about this, but the basic lesson...
That, however, doesn't guarantee it will rake in 'wow' revenues in this millennium. The flurry of product announcements at CES does indicate that after years of broken promises, DVD is ready to roll. "The good news," says Briesch, "is that we're starting a business in 1997." The bad news is that the emphasis is on starting. The term DVD encompasses various products, many of which won't have reached your local Radio Shack by the time you start planning your Year 2000 party...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Bill Clinton had given a lot of thought to the fact that he was about to give not just his own celebratory second Inauguration speech, but the final such address of the millennium. Looking for a way to invoke the kind of Big Ideas that millennial thinking seems to demand, he scribbled revisions in his text right down to the wire. After attending a church service with his family, and basking in the oratory of Jesse Jackson, the President headed down to the ceremony on a frigid and overcast morning. As if on cue, the winter sun broke...
...whole culture of technology-loving--and in some cases, perhaps, technology-worshipping--futurists, such words smack of 1st millennium thinking in the face of 3rd millennium faith. They tend to see in the Internet something larger than themselves, an entity so much greater than the sum of its parts as to inspire awe and wonder. "People see the Net as a new metaphor for God," says Sherry Turkel, a professor of the sociology of science at M.I.T. The Internet, she says, exists as a world of its own, distinct from earthly reality, crafted by humans but now growing...