What’s the 2000-year of today?
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).
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.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
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.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
It’s 2030. See Dan’s list:
http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2008/08/2030.html
August 29th, 2008 at 2:00 am
“2000″ relevant post on Paleofuture: http://www.paleofuture.com/2008/08/rcas-two-thousand-1969.html
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