Another Millennium? Yawn!
By Robert Gillis
Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 1/2001
What if they gave a millennium and no one cared?
Unlike the galactic hype accompanying New Year’s Eve 2000, the dawn of the true millennium seemed almost a non-event. Besides the inevitable comparison of the predictions made in “2001: A Space odyssey” to the current world, even the media didn’t devote an enormous amount of coverage to this New Years.
In fact, New Year’s 2001 seemed such a non-event that the bigger news story was the blizzard that wasn’t.