NPR’s Andrew Limbong speaks with writer Colette Shade about her book “Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was).”
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(SOUNDBITE OF BACKSTREET BOYS SONG, “LARGER THAN LIFE”)
ANDREW LIMBONG, HOST:
In the late ’90s, the future looked so bright, didn’t it? We had pop stars in music videos dancing with robots in space.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “LARGER THAN LIFE”)
BACKSTREET BOYS: (Singing) All you people, can’t you see? Can’t you see?
LIMBONG: We had a president talking about all this extra money we had lying around.
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BILL CLINTON: We expect the 1990 surplus – 1998