Word: everly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...That's a very interesting question. I hadn't actually thought about that. Or much else. At all. Ever...
WILL WOMEN STILL NEED MEN? -- WILL POLITICIANS MATTER? WILL WE HAVE ANY PRIVACY LEFT? -- WHAT WILL MAKE US LAUGH? -- WHAT WILL WE DO ON SATURDAY NIGHT? -- WHAT WILL OUR HOUSES LOOK LIKE? -- WILL WE EVER LOG OFF? WILL WE STILL GO OUT TO THE GAME? -- WILL THE CRIME RATE KEEP FALLING? -- WILL A WOMAN BECOME POPE? -- WHAT WILL WE WEAR? -- WHAT WILL OUR SKYLINE LOOK LIKE? -- WILL TEENAGERS DISAPPEAR? -- WHO WILL BE THE NEXT ELITE...
...already feel this happening, with the force of a riptide. The self-made American rich are as celebrated, as respected, even as loved as they have ever been in our history and maybe the history of any other country. They smile at us from magazine covers and give us their opinions on television. Their charitable foundations, growing enormously, are taking government's place as the national laboratory for public projects and social innovation. Never mind the Microsoft antitrust suit. The literally murderous personal rage against rich people that was so much a feature of American life at the outset...
...when will we retire? Many people 65 and over will probably find themselves in demand, hired as consultants by companies facing the giant labor shortage coming when baby boomers retire (and the concomitant knowledge gap coming when ever younger workers take their places). These older workers will return from retirement or, better yet, never retire. Already nearly 70% of us expect to work after age 65. The question is, Which is more stifling, the paternalistic company with its gold watch as a reward for lifetime service, or the new paradigm: all work, all the time, all your life...
...love each other enough--enough, that is, to sustain the old pair-bonded way of life? Many experts see the glass half empty: cohabitation may be replacing marriage, but it's even less likely to last. Hearts are routinely broken and children's lives disrupted as we churn, ever starry-eyed, from one relationship to the next. Even liberal icons like Hillary Rodham Clinton and Harvard Afro-American studies professor Cornel West have been heard muttering about the need to limit the ease and accessibility of divorce...