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more about #millennium cletar: Where the hell are the flying cars? more » Vulcan Has No Moon: Christopher Reeve :( I will refrain from commenting on those who did their damnedest to ban stem cell research. more » Kishi: AOL? Even in 2000, it was a laughing stock among my friends, best known for having those free CDs at every register in every store- grab a handful ea... more » Dresan: Dunno why this post kinda depresses me :S more » geesejuggler: I would to comment about the changes in the past and future but really, I'm still ticked off about not having a jet-pack. more » Starlionblue: "Airlines will modernise, and increase their efficiency. Nope. Instead, we're stuck with aging fleets, hidden costs, and increasingly insane behavior ... more » GothAlice: "Computer processors will hit 10GHz by 2010. We haven't even seen 4GHz yet. Whose law?" Moore's. We have 7GHz single-core processors (admittedly liq... more » Chip Overclock: No one foresaw Starbucks pushing instant coffee, in what seems to be a marketing effort completely contrary to their business model. more » Polybius: Awww.... the Christopher Reeve one made me sad... :( more » Chip Overclock: I don't know exactly what Kurzweil said about computers in all shapes and sizes, but that was exactly right. The market reports for embedded processor... more » Chip Overclock: SBC Communications: I'd say this one is true. What actually happened is that SBC basically bought AT&T (although some called it a merger), and then us... more » cylon_conspiracy: "Since then, the vast majority of scientists accept human-influenced global climate change as fact, and dissenters are increasingly laypeople." Eliti... more » Shewski: "Since then, the vast majority of scientists accept human-influenced global climate change as fact, and dissenters are increasingly laypeople." I mig... more » salviati: I have to disagree with the assessment about processor speed. Although we haven't made it to 10GHz quite yet, we are using multi-core processors. On... more » Dirk Anger: "Wrong We will stop evolving. This prediction fails to take into account that evolution is something that can happen at the fringes of society, among ... more » Kitradu: What I didn't see coming? That popular vampires would be pussies. I did not see that coming at all. more » messiahco: The show stated in some episodes that the "Millennium" didn't necessarily revolve around the Y2K, that it was a concept as opposed to a date. With ev... more » gorehound: right on we always need more rebooots !!!! i pass on this one. more » reddingofish: Millennium was such a pointless show and I think that a movie done after the turn of the millennium would be even more pointless. more » redqueenmeg: I'm for it. Maybe it will help teach people how to spell the damned word. more » -
#predictions
Millennium Predictions That Got Things Right - and Those That Didn't
A decade ago, the world was braced for the Y2K bug and everyone was prognosticating about the 21st century. Ten years into the new millennium, we look back at those predictions and decide which still seem likely - or not.
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#millennium
Millennium Returns, With Lance — But Without Chris Carter
Hold on to your 90s conspiracy theories: Millenium is getting a movie, and Lance Henriksen will be returning as his character Frank Black. But here's the rub — show creator Chris Carter is persona non grata on set. More » -
#stupidpublishertricks
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Rip 'Em Off
With Marvel Comics' Secret Invasion topping the sales charts, you can't blame DC Comics for wanting to get in on the action - especially when the plot of Secret Invasion closely mirrors two of their own series from the 1980s, Millennium and Invasion!. But do the covers of the recently-released collections of those two series go too far? Millennium's new tagline "Trust No One!" answering Secret Invasion's own tagline "Who Do You Trust?" is one thing, but adding "Secret No More!" onto the cover of Invasion!? That just seems kind of desperate. [Invasion!]
