Word: millennium
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...hound of Zeus" tearing from Prometheus' liver the price of fire. Was the world ready for the new step forward? It was never ready. It was, in fact, still fumbling for the answers to the age of steam and electricity. Man had been tossed into the vestibule of another millennium. It was wonderful to think of what the Atomic Age might be, if man was strong and honest. But at first it was a strange place, full of weird symbols and the smell of death...
...vestibule of this new millennium continues to have intruders that TIME tries to wrestle into moral and historical context. The digital age, for example, has brought not only the excitement of more democratic forms of media but also the specter of invasions of our privacy and the spread of false information and poisonous ideas to every nook of a networked world. The impending biotech age promises not only the ability to engineer an end to diseases but also the weird prospects of cloning our bodies and tinkering with the genes of our children...
Britain is marking the millennium by building a dome. ?Our dome, Britain?s dome,? said Prime Minister Tony Blair earlier this week, ?will be the envy of the world.? The contents of the $1.2 billion structure, revealed this week, include a 170-foot hollow sculpture of an androgynous human figure -- which visitors will enter at waist level and leave via the right leg -- and a ?dreamscape? across which visitors can travel on boats shaped like beds. Notwithstanding such Willy Wonka-esque attractions, many Brits remain skeptical. The rest of us will just have to live with our dome envy...
...lecture is the first in a series of events planned by the council. Formed in August 1997, the council organizes lectures and other events so that Americans can contemplate and celebrate the coming of the next millennium, Vogelsinger said...
According to Vogelsinger, the council also plans to launch other projects in preparation for the millennium, including Save America's Treasures, a program to which President Clinton alluded in his State of the Union...