Description: “It's either dream or die. It's time to start dreaming again.” - NASA Chief Flight Director Gene Kranz, 1999
The advent of the Year 2000 served as the first turn of the millennium in living memory. Popular culture, and particularly media industries, conceptualized a new “millennium” not only as a measurement of 1,000 years but also as a singular moment that can empower radical change: A cataclysmic nightmare, with fire and disaster, or a utopian future, with technological marvels and friendly aliens. Though neither of those extremes transpired at the end of the twentieth century, the transition from 1999 to 2000
REWIND 2000: IMAGINING THE FUTURE AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM surveys how Texas media documented the dawn of the twenty-first century. Combining local broadcast coverage with older archival footage, the web exhibit reminds us of major events and trends experienced at the time as well as considers how those evocative moments continue to impact our understanding of the past. REWIND 2000 also examines how Texans foresaw life in the next millennium. With 20 years of hindsight, how accurate were their futurist
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