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The turn of a millennium can't help but be distracting. Look, it's Twenty-First Century! Bring on the blasters and personal hovercars! A pocketful of plastic credits for everyone! (Actually, a lot of us already have a pocketful of plastic credit. Only thing the scientifictionists got wrong was, they used the plural instead of the singular.)
Copyright 1995 by Teresa Nielsen Hayden. Our best guess for Jesus of Nazareth’s actual birth date is 4 B.C. So forget that impending two-triple-ought impostor; if the US Post Office is planning to issue Jesus a bimillennial commemorative, 1996 is the year to do it. The turn of a millennium can’t help but be distracting. Look, it’s Twenty-First Century! Bring on the blasters and personal hovercars! A pocketful of plastic credits for everyone! (Actually, a lot of us already have a pocketful of plastic credit. Only thing the scientifictionists got wrong was, they used the plural instead of…
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