Time Magazine Contents Page
THE GREAT EVENT
A Moment to Marvel
The millennium shines with immense psychological power. It promises a new age -- or an apocalypse.
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The Big Blowout
So what if it's still more than seven years away?
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The Future Poll
Americans speculate on the Second Coming and other mysteries
LOOKING BACK
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Out of the Darkness
The current millennium was dominated by the rise of Europe and the triumph of the West, for good and ill
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Millennium at a Glance
A gatefold timeline puts 1,000 years into perspective
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Our Astonishing Era
The 20th century brought an explosion of change and an onslaught of high technology
THE CENTURY AHEAD
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Into the Unknown
The future will be complex, fast-paced and turbulent. Will we be ready?
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The New World Order
With militarism ending, all the big questions will be basically economic
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Higher Tech
Here come intelligent machines, multisensual media and highly evolved artificial creatures
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The Family Network
The loosely knit clan of the future won't be at all like the Jetsons
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The Love Connection
Sex and dating will be attempted only by thrill seekers
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Ninetysomething
You may live longer, but health care will neglect some people
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The Age of Genetics
It could rival the Industrial Revolution
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Learning Leap
Education will have to become a central theme of American life
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Revelations
Faith will thrive, theology will suffer
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No Breathing Room
Can the earth support 11 billion people?
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Designer Dreams
Scenes from the fall season, 2042
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Video Deluge
The choices will dazzle, but will the heart be lonely?
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Backward Progress
If rising affluence is only for a few, the dream is flawed
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Resolutions
Leaders, thinkers and stars propose goals for the new century
THE NEXT 1,000 YEARS
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Seeking Other Worlds
Technology will bring a new space age. Will we find anybody out there?
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Mysteries Within Us
The human brain will be the inner frontier
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The Hammer of God
In a new science-fiction story by Arthur C. Clarke, an asteroid threatens Earth
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Perils of Prediction
Why do humans have such an impulse to peer ahead?
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