What’s the 2000-year of today?

Posted: August 25th, 2008 | 12 Comments »

2000

2000, 2001… all these famous years depicted in science-fiction and anticipatory media pieces were so pervasive that they shaped brandings lots of cultures (Peru above, France below). At certain times, 2000 evoked flying cars, neural connections or Mars colonization (and certainly not Y2k angst).

2000

Fascinated by the use of these elements, it’s often stunning to ask the question: What’s the 2000-year of today?”. If you read french, this is the topic addressed by Marc Augé in last book “Où est passé l’avenir?” (where is the future?) in which he describes how we’re stuck in a sort of perpetual present.

12 Comments on “What’s the 2000-year of today?”

  1. 1 John the Statistician said at 5:20 pm on August 27th, 2008:

    I actually hear 2020 and 2025, which really aren’t all that far out, but which is better than nothing. I think one good number is from “Frontiers of Interaction” when Bruce Sterling thought it would be about 30 years before we’d be living in a spime culture, and then revised it to 27 years 3 years later. Another good number is to take the various estimates pundits have posited as the data of the singularity, average them, and then maybe subtract 5 years.

  2. 2 cameron said at 9:18 pm on August 27th, 2008:

    It’s 2030. See Dan’s list:
    http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2008/08/2030.html

  3. 3 Scott Boone said at 2:00 am on August 29th, 2008:

    “2000″ relevant post on Paleofuture: http://www.paleofuture.com/2008/08/rcas-two-thousand-1969.html

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