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Originally Posted by Centropolis
i grew up thinking that the turn of the millennium would usher in some kind of apocalypse or otherwise technological dystopia...perhaps a horrific "first contact." i grew up watching x-files and twin peaks... i wasn't alone, i seem to remember this sort of thinking as being fairly standard in the mid 90s youth culture, reared on industrial music...i was only a few decades off.  |
Indeed you weren't alone. Federal Reserve Chair Allen Greenspan believed it too which is why at the end of the 90s decade he pumped up the money supply so egregiously, hoping to ward off economic cataclysm when all the world's computers crashed, that he caused the subsequent market collapse of the early 2000s once it became clear nothing was happening and he had to try to uncreate all that cash.