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A prescient précis from
David Byrne (frontman of Talking Heads) in 1994, looking ahead to when the year 2000 was still 6 years away, foreseeing the benefits and curses the burgeoning absorption of Information Technology into our lives would bring:
"I suppose at the end of the Millennium, people have millenial thoughts
They get millenial fever
They get religious fever
And all kinds of fevers
That they expect there's going to be a summing up
And that we're going to make a big step into the next phase
Of whatever we do
And it becomes almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy
I think people pack their bags
And get ready
But the act of packing your bags
Makes things happen
Even if they weren't going to happen anyway."
A Mentorn Barraclough Carey Production for Channel 4
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A prescient précis from
David Byrne (frontman of Talking Heads) in 1994, looking ahead to when the year 2000 was still 6 years away, foreseeing the benefits and curses the burgeoning absorption of Information Technology into our lives would bring:
"I suppose at the end of the Millennium, people have millenial thoughts
They get millenial fever
They get religious fever
And all kinds of fevers
That they expect there's going to be a summing up
And that we're going to make a big step into the next phase
Of whatever we do
And it becomes almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy
I think people pack their bags
And get ready
But the act of packing your bags
Makes things happen
Even if they weren't going to happen anyway."
A Mentorn Barraclough Carey Production for Channel 4
1 03040 04
