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...MILLENNIUM IS THE COMET that crosses the calendar every thousand years. It throws off metaphysical sparks. It promises a new age, or an apocalypse. It is a magic trick that time performs, extracting a millisecond from its eternal flatness and then, poised on that transitional instant, projecting a sort of hologram that teems with the summarized life of the thousand years just passed and with visions of the thousand now to come...
...approaching millennium year 2000 is counted from the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem of Judea, in the year (so the Bible says) when Caesar Augustus decreed that a census of the world be taken. A millennial year has thus occurred only once before: fifty generations ago, in the year 1000, on what was a very different, more primitive planet earth. So this one has a strange, cosmic prestige, a quality of the almost unprecedented. The world approaches it in states of giddiness, expectation and, consciously or unconsciously, a certain anxiety. The millennium looms as civilization's most spectacular birthday...
...bring you a bonus package of our best journalistic efforts, applied to a larger subject than we can ordinarily tackle in a week. This week readers will find at newsstands and in mailboxes perhaps our most ambitious project yet: "Beyond the Year 2000: What to Expect in the New Millennium...
...from more modest proposals by several staff members. And then, over the past six months, it was prepared under the direction of editors Edward Jamieson and Stephen Koepp. Vacationing in the Grand Canyon's timeless beauty soon after he began the project, Koepp felt inspired to think about the millennium. "We decided to do this issue now because the '90s are really the advent season of the new millennium. In the relative scale of things, it's just a few minutes before midnight, and time for humankind to start preparing for what lies beyond," he says. "The year...
...sole advertiser, IBM, appears in the pages of this issue. We are pleased that the company chose to associate itself with this project, a review of how far we've come in the past millennium and how much further we may be going in the next...