 @2000 Chat Series
Join CNN.com for a series of discussions with leading authors,
historians and documentarians to contemplate life at the
turn of the century.
Monday, November 22
@2000 chat at 4pm et
Discuss the future of space exploration in our next Year 2000 chat with Alex Roland, former NASA historian and History Department Chair at Duke University.
Tuesday, November 23
@2000 chat at 2pm et
Discuss the future of architecture and city planning with Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Dean of the School of Architecture at University of Miami and member of the team who built the town Seaside in "The Truman Show."
Wednesday, November 24
@2000 chat at 1pm et
Our Year 2000 chat series continues with a discussion about furniture design with designer Bruce Hannah, Professor of Design at Pratt Institute.
Monday, November 29
@2000 chat at 2pm et
Discuss poverty and the image of Africa in the media with Nadine Gordimer, Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Program and Nobel Laureate for Literature.
Tuesday, November 30
@2000 chat at 4pm et
Discuss the future of education in our continuing Year 2000 series with Jerry Murphy, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Thursday, December 2
@2000 chat at 12pm et
Meet Web visionary and designer Clement Mok, Chief Creative Officer at Sapient.com, as he joins our Year 2000 chat series to discuss the future of the Internet and Web design.
Tuesday, December 7
@2000 chat at 4:30pm et
Chat about the future of faith with Bishop Steven Charleston, Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Wednesday, December 8
@2000 chat at 1pm et
Chat about the future of language with computer linguistics expert Edward Hovy, Head of the Natural Language Group at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California.
Tuesday, December 14
@2000 chat at 1pm et
Our Year 2000 chat series continues with a discussion about the future of sports in the next millennium with Michael Massik, Executive Director of the U.S. Fencing Association.
Thursday, December 16
@2000 chat at 4pm et
Chat about artificial intelligence with James Hendler, Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, as our @2000 chat series continues.
Join the chats!
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Chat E-lert
Discuss the future of education with Jerry Murphy, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education" at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, November 30.
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Chit Chat
>From a Year 2000 chat with author Mark Morton:
Question from Young: Was there the same kind of hype back in 1899?
Mark Morton: There was a tremendous amount of excitement about the end of the century. But... this didn't occur until the end of 1900. I'll say a bit more in a minute about why they chose 1900 instead of 1899...
Question from catgirl: Mark Morton, have you found that more people fear the new millennium or look forward to it with great excitement...and why?
Mark Morton: That's a really good question. Judging from how people reacted to the ends of previous centuries, I would say that people's attitudes really become polarized at that moment in time
Read the entire transcript!
Interesting facts from our November 11 chat with champagne
expert Ed McCarthy:
Question from Cathy: I heard there will be a shortage of
champagne this New Years.. Is that true?
Ed McCarthy: The problem is, this year there has been an
inordinate amount of champagne sold, in the United States especially... But, there will be champagne available I'm
sure even up to New Years Eve.
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