The Year 2000

The future isn't what it used to be.

“The Genitron” at Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1988, counting down the seconds to the year 2000

For centuries "The Year 2000" was a potent symbol that represented “the future”, and for good reason. A change in millennium is nothing to be scoffed at. It is, by definition, ten times more significant than a plain old turn of the century.

Speaking of “turn of …