| Description |
x, 185 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Reference shelf; v. 71, no. 5
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-182) and index. |
| Contents |
Terror in A.D. 1000? (What really happened 1,000 years ago) / Patricia Bernstein -- Apocalyptic year 1000 : then and now / Richard Landes -- Of kings and commoners / Jay Tolson -- End-times visions / Jeffrey L. Sheler -- Millennium : the biggest party ever-and you are invited! / Dan Johnson -- Making sense of past visions of 2000 : what are they thinking? / Geoffrey Colvin -- Can the millennium deliver? / Henry A. Grunwald -- Will Y2K spark a worldwide SOS? / Ann Reilly Dowd -- Great climate flip-flop / William H. Calvin -- Warm-blooded plants and freeze-dried fish / Freeman J. Dyson -- Should Kurdistan be a nation? Scotland? How about New York City? / Stephen Baker -- Future of war / Ralph Peters -- World turns gray : how global aging will challenge the world's economic well-being / Phillip J. Longman -- You ain't seen nothing yet / Michael J. Mandel -- Your next job / Daniel McGinn and John McCormick -- Millennial mind-set it's here, it's clear, get used to it! / Annetta Miller -- Your second century / Heidi Evans -- Gen-millennium's view of color / Scott Shepard -- Clocks ahead will have our own faces / Diane Brady -- Future shocks / Joshua Quittner -- Pundit forecasts portable, praying PCs in 'The Age of Spiritual Machines' / Richard A. Shaffer -- Future of intimacy : a search for soul in the new machines / Mark Kingwell. |
| Subject |
Twenty-first century.
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Twenty-first century -- Forecasts
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Millennium (Eschatology)
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Social prediction.
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Two thousand, A.D.
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| Added Author |
Claggett, Hilary D., 1964-
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| Added Title |
Twenty-first century |
| ISBN |
0824209664 (alk. paper) |
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