Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...favor technology to overcome environment. Donna Karan merges clothing with communications gear. Geoffrey Beene believes that men will dump the suit -- as he already has. Giorgio Armani, noting that the basic 1940s outline is still chic, plumps for his easy elegant styles, be they last year's or next millennium...
...sparked more anticipation and mystery than the year 2000. And now the epic moment is close at hand. Lucky us: few people who ever walk the earth have had the opportunity to ring in, all at once, a new year, a new decade, a new century and a new millennium. The imminence of this extraordinary occasion inspired us to devote an entire special issue to the tantalizing future before us and the great events that have set the stage for it. We are happy that our plans for this project appealed so much to IBM that it offered to become...
...subject so monumental calls for some unusual approaches. In one such departure, we commissioned science-fiction master Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, to write a new story, set in the third millennium. His tale, The Hammer of God, about an asteroid that imperils the earth, is only the second piece of fiction ever to be published in TIME. (The first was a story by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1969.) The 74-year-old British futurist, who has written more than 50 books, is often as prescient as he is prolific. Clarke has long warned about humankind...
...told, TIME journalists consulted more than 200 futuristic thinkers to help shape this guide to the next millennium. We hope you agree that the result is an exciting preview of the world in which we will soon live...
With the new millennium just a few years away, futurism's mixed record is unlikely to dull the human impulse to peer ahead. Everyone should keep in mind, however, that there is only one prediction that can be made with confidence: look for the future to bring a lot more predictions...