Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-182) and index.

The year 1000 and the second millennium -- Terror in A.D. 1000? (What really happened 1,000 years ago) / Patricia Bernstein -- The apocalyptic year 1000: then and now / Richard Landes -- The Year 2000: essays on the end -- Of kings and commoners / Jay Tolson -- End-times visions / Jeffrey L. Sheler -- The year 2000 and the third millennium -- Millennium: the biggest party ever-and you are invited! / Dan Johnson -- Making sense of past visions of 2000: what are they thinking? / Geoffrey Colvin -- Can the millennium deliver? / Henry A. Grunwald -- Will Y2K spark a worldwide SOS? / Ann Reilly Dowd -- The future of the planet -- The great climate flip-flop / William H. Calvin -- Warm-blooded plants and freeze-dried fish / Freeman J. Dyson -- Should Kurdistan be a nation? Scotland? How about New York City? / Stephen Baker -- The future of war / Ralph Peters -- The economic outlook -- The world turns gray: how global aging will challenge the world's economic well-being / Phillip J. Longman -- You ain't seen nothing yet / Michael J. Mandel -- Your next job / Daniel McGinn and John McCormick -- The millennial mind-set it's here, it's clear, get used to it! / Annetta Miller -- The society of the future -- Your second century / Heidi Evans -- Gen-millennium's view of color / Scott Shepard -- The clocks ahead will have our own faces / Diane Brady -- Future shocks / Joshua Quittner -- Pundit forecasts portable, praying PCs in 'The Age of Spiritual Machines' / Richard A. Shaffer -- The future of intimacy: a search for soul in the new machines / Mark Kingwell.