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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The pundits tell us that the central division in our transnational world is between the "slow" cultures of the plow and the "fast" ones of the microchip, the gap between them accelerating at an unprecedented rate. But what is more of a vexation in our modern times--a temporal Tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Centuries Collide | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

The single biggest strangeness of the American Century we're leaving is that it has been shaped, to a startling extent, by a technology that encourages us to believe that progress is a good in itself, and by a global power, the world's youngest, that is more interested in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Centuries Collide | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

As the clock ticks down toward the millennium, which has the air of being the largest future in some time (and as, paradoxically, that clock moves more and more of us to dwell on the past, our anchor), we find ourselves, more than ever, doing the splits, with one foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Centuries Collide | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Since then, we've assembled panels of experts to help us choose our top nominees, who were profiled in the five issues of our TIME 100 series and on CBS News specials (and are now available as a book, People of the Century, from Simon & Schuster). We've done TV...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writers For The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

We came up with three finalists, all profiled in this issue, based on the major themes of the century. There was the triumph of freedom over fascism and communism, for which Franklin Roosevelt is the embodiment. To represent the crusades for civil rights and individual liberties, we chose Mohandas Gandhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writers For The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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