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The Guide #219:: Don’t panic! Revisiting the millennium’s wildest cultural predictions
- The piece notes digital projectors transformed cinema by the mid-2010s, meeting many early fears.
- Streaming and on‑demand TV emerged as the new norm, reshaping the ad and scheduling landscape.
- Podcasts, not forecast in the millennium era, became a transformative cultural force.
- The Guardian notes the Millennium Dome’s hype as a symbol of era‑defining fixation.
- Music forecasters predicted bedroom albums and global market convergence for pop.
- AI’s rise was largely unanticipated by turn‑of‑millennium prognostications.
- The piece frames accuracy and misses as revealing about the era and its journalists.
- The Dome is contrasted with a later successful, though soulless, entertainment venue.
- The article surveys how revelatory predictions about technology, politics, and culture shaped public discourse.
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