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...some way have changed, embraced the simple life, ushered in the Us millennium? More likely, we'll return in January to trade stocks, work overtime, buy DVD toasters at postholiday sales, having taken a breather between a turbulent millennium past and an uncertain one ahead. After a season of Y2K anxiety and millenarian doomsaying, condensed history and holiday hype, we should all be so lucky as to have another boring New Year...
Technology isn't weird science; it's everyday life. It's e-mail. It's the government wanting to bust up Microsoft, Y2K threatening the globe, the Internet challenging the mall. Ignore it? O.K. But then forget about beating the market, and go buy an index fund. Really. You'd get a market weighting in tech stocks (24% of the S&P 500) along with low expenses and tax-efficient management. That's a great deal...
DESKTOPS Macs are back, PCs rev up 90 NOTEBOOKS Ultralight power play 93 HANDHELDS Wireless Web access now 96 CELL PHONES Going digital with care 100 PRINTERS, SCANNERS Sharp and cheap 102 SOFTWARE Utility players and Y2K 105 GAMES The age of total immersion 107 HOME THEATER On the verge of HDTV 110 DIGITAL CAMERAS True sophistication...
This is New Year's Eve 1999, as foreseen by Y2K--a truly painful NBC film that last weekend became a late-breaking entry for the title of Worst TV Movie of the Millennium, despite some substantial competition. For what the movie lacks in budget and coherent plot, it makes up for in family-size doses of alarmism...
...filmmakers can get away with this because of our enduring millennial uneasiness. We still can't be sure what will happen to our computer-assisted jets, nuclear power plants and electricity-supply lines at the moment '99 rolls over into '00. A flurry of bug- fixing and Y2K-readiness reports over the past year seems to have lulled most of us into a what-me-worry? coma, but it hasn't made the problem go away. There are untold millions of embedded chips and creaky old computer systems that will continue to keep track of the date in terms...