Word: millenniums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...digital revolution that burns so brightly today is likely to pale in comparison to the revolution in biotechnology that is just beginning. Physicist Stephen Hawking, speaking at the White House last month on science in the next millennium, pointed out that for the past 10,000 years there has been no significant change in our human DNA. But over the next hundred years, we will be able and tempted to tinker. No doubt we'll make some improvements and some mistakes. We'll encode our dreams and vanities and hubris. We'll clone ourselves, we'll custom-design our kids...
...world we live in today is Franklin Roosevelt's world. Of the figures who for good or evil dominated the planet 60 years ago, he would be least surprised by the shape of things at the millennium. And confident as he was of the power and vitality of democracy, he would welcome the challenges posed by the century to come...
Even with these small drawbacks, Opera 3.1 is an astonishing product and an amazing achievement. Keep Netscape or IE around when you just have to check out that Java-based millennium count-down timer, but for the daily Web surfing needs of real power users, there is no better browser than Opera, period...
...after laying out this bleak out-look for the short term, Reich dismissed it, shifting the focus of his speech from a discussion of Washington politics to one on the themes relevant to the Democratic Party at the turn of the millennium...
...secret that come Millennium Eve, computers everywhere may be crashing faster than the Indonesian rupiah. Last week U.S. officials admitted that they've fixed only 35% of the most vital federal mainframes and won't have time before Dec. 31, 1999, to prevent all the 5,100 remaining machines from deciding it's 1900, not 2000. "Financial transactions could be delayed, airline flights grounded and national defense affected," warns the General Accounting Office's Gene Dodaro. Not to mention anyone caught in an elevator...