Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

I remember when I was younger… and it doesn’t seem so very long ago… thinking how strange it would seem to be alive when we moved into a new millennium. To an imagination fed on the early science fiction programmes like Star Trek, it felt as if the world would be unrecognisable by then. In some ways it was too and many of the fanciful gadgets mocked up by the props department are now part of everyday life. These days I am more likely to wonder if I will share my grandmothers’ longevity and still be around to see the turning point of the century in 2050… and what the world will look like then as technology advances with the rapidity of a snowball while humankind remains stuck in a behavioural rut.

In a few days’ time, we will all be watching the clock, waiting for yet another year to…