Word: millenniums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must copy CDs, using special $300 drives, and install a mail-ordered $4 modifying chip--a significant psychological barrier to mass piracy. And Sony has an ace up its sleeve in the shape of the PlayStation II, set to wow its first U.S. users at the turn of the millennium. Nintendo looks more vulnerable to emulators. Its cartridge-based games are much smaller, download more quickly--and, with UltraHLE, play easily...
TELEPHONE: The millennium bug will not disrupt world phone service (International Telecommunications Union...
...surprising backlash has developed. For starters, sporting a big dividend yield on turn-of-the-millennium Wall Street is like going to school with a KICK ME sign stuck to your back. You'll probably get pummeled. Investors want growth and capital gain. Period. That's apparent in today's fury to own money-losing, dividendless Internet and other tech stocks. Meanwhile, there is some question whether the rash of REITs will smooth the real estate cycle as advertised. The theory goes like this: with many real estate companies dependent on stock sales to fund projects, Wall Street becomes...
...Millennium madness is upon us. With the countdown to the end of the world in full swing, cultural icons assault us with visions of the coming apocalypse, passing judgment on the last century of human progress and awaiting the Second Coming and the birth of the Antichrist. Codrescu's messiah, impressively, manages to surf the web, enjoy an orgasm, save humanity and open a restaurant all in time for Mardi Gras...
Ultimately the novel fails because Codrescu's ideas are more banal than fantastic. Conspiracy theory, millennium madness, channeling of spirits: these are dated visions, and the date on the can has expired. Angels hovering above New Orleans, Albert Einstein reincarnated in the body of gigolo and pessimistic condemnations of consumer culture no longer have anything to offer us. Perhaps half a century from now a Hist & Lit concentrator writing a thesis on millennium madness will come across this novel as yet another example of kitsch ushering in the end of the world...