Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prophet could anticipate what actually did happen. So here we are, an incredible, terrible, marvelous century later, nearing our own fin de siecle -- and fin de millennium...
...have our indomitable optimists. An outfit called the Millennium Society has lined up the QE2 to transport 3,000 people, all presumably upbeat, to a huge celebration at the Great Pyramid of Cheops. The authors of Megatrends 2000 look to "a period of stunning technological innovation, unprecedented economic opportunity, surprising political reform and great cultural rebirth...
What makes it worse is that we take so much time labeling all the previous eras and millennium of the world. Even the fact that we have names for all of these periods is disconcerting. Mesozoic, Cretaceous, Paleozoic, Cambrian. Who can name these periods except for kindergarteners who spend too much time hugging stuffed dinosaurs and trading erasers shaped like pre-historical animals...
...fact, the Al Franken Decade had to be the single greatest attempt to break the tyranny of history and make sure that we don't get our personal significance squashed into the crude oil to be sold in some later millennium for $1.18 a gallon...
...technological innovation so absurd that they lie beyond satire, like those made for Soviet science in Stalin's time. Afrocentrists have at one time or another claimed that Egyptians, alias Africans, invented the wet-cell battery by observing electric eels in the Nile; and that late in the 1st millennium B.C., they took to flying around in gliders. (This news is based not on the discovery of an aircraft in an Egyptian tomb but on a silhouette wooden votive sculpture of the god Horus, a falcon, that a passing English businessman mistook some decades ago for a model airplane.) Some...