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seeing in the millenium


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Wilf Original Poster
3rd Aug 2015 23:08:33 (Last activity: 30th Nov 2015 15:09:33)
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It seems a long time ago since December 31st 1999 when 2015 seems a huge distance into the future but the years have flown by. That was a memorable night for many and I remember the parties and fireworks well. I think the world is changing so fast and none could have foreseen all the events and changes of the past 15 years from iphones and ipads to the Iraq war and the rapid rise of China. What an amazing time we live in!
Response from orchardlane made on 30th Nov 2015 15:09:33
I never did understand why the new millennium was celebrated a year early.
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Amateureye
23rd Aug 2015 11:46:01 (Last activity: 23rd Aug 2015 18:06:58)
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You also forgot to mention the millennium bug. We all thought the world might end, well we didn't know whether our computers at the time would carry on working or aeroplanes were going to fall out of the sky. When I was a child the most I had was a little radio set with a bakelite earpiece trying to pick up radio Caroline from the North Sea happy days. If you look at what's technology is available to people over the last 50 years it makes you wonder where it's going to end, I personally think it's only a matter of time before they start chipping us? I have to say I absolutely love technology not that I know how to work it properly as my granddaughters keep telling me. But also sometimes it becomes really scary, what they are capable of doing with it. Well maybe George Orwell was right when he wrote the novel 1984.
Response from Wilf Original Poster made on 23rd Aug 2015 12:20:21
Yes I remember the Millennium Bug -it was in the papers all the time and in the end came to nothing-amazing really. One of the best glimpses of the future was from the writer Arther C Clarke in 2001 A Space Odessy when we described fictional other intelligent beings "first they built spaceships, then they became spaceships themselves and their brains were in bodies made of steel and plastic and finally they became beings of pure energy able to travel anywhere"-The future really is exciting and like you I love technology and the incredible ways its changing all our lives.
Response from Amateureye made on 23rd Aug 2015 18:06:58
This is probably one of the few science-fiction movies I actually haven't seen, I'll have to see if it's available on Netflix. If it is I'll give it a watch and let you know what I think about it. My latest piece of technology is an android box it turns your TV into a mini computer with apps I'm having lots of fun working out how to do things with it.
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