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The Millennium
I've always thought "Futurist" would be a cool job title, but how do you get a gig like that? While I'm waiting for the phone to ring I might as well give it a whirl on an amateur basis...
Prediction: as we approach December 31st this year "millennial angst" will be a non-event for the population at large. There'll be plenty of good parties around the place, but there will be surprisingly little interest in the beginning of the new millennium itself. Many people will reject the hype as meaningless numerology, and will seek to actively treat the whole event as (at the most) an ordinary New Years Eve. This may even come to be the accepted cool stance. At extreme, many people will compete to be doing the most banal thing possible at midnight on December 31st.
As well as reflecting general secular rationalism, this rejection will be driven by the inevitably gross over-commercialisation and crushingly ungroovy "establishment" hype that we'll inevitably soon be drowning in.
