Past Forward: Faculty Perspectives from Y2K to 2050
It’s hard to believe that 25 years have passed since people feared a global computer glitch ("Y2K") would paralyze the world at the stroke of midnight, December 31, 1999.
While that world certainly didn't come to an end, the one we live in now—powered by AI, connected through the internet and undergoing a health revolution thanks to new pharmaceuticals for things like cancer and weight loss—would seem vastly unfamiliar to someone teleported straight from then to today.
Science fiction? No—science fact.
And it’s a fact that faculty and students in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) have helped lead the way in so many areas, finding new answers to the urgent questions and grand challenges facing us, from health and sustainability to smart materials and the origins of our Universe.
Click the tiles below to see what A&S experts from a variety of disciplines have to say about how their fields have evolved since Y2K—and what we can expect to see over the next 25 years.
