Pivotal fictional years

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2001 is finished, as is 1999 and 1984. (A few people may yet still be startled by this news.) I like living in years with some kind of resonance to their names. The only resonance 2002 has is that it is the last palindromic year till 2112, which is only briefly thrilling, and probably only to me. The next "famous" year I can think of is 2525, which is a real letdown. Because it's a crap song.

Does anyone else care about this? Does anyone else feel we are entering some sort of contextual void, with no touchstones to help us decide how to define the era in which we live? What sort of new myths should we create for the noughties? Do people find this newness exciting or do they feel cut adrift by it?

― Sam, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

New answers, but I didn't articulate that very well. It has something to do with my enjoying imposing Structure and Background on to my life, as part of some kind of pop-culture bedrock which I feel I sit on top of, and can't really function without. Erm.

― Sam, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

try adding the integers in the year, and judging its potential by yr relation to the figure derived: eg 2+0+0+2 = 4 = FAB hurrah, whereas 2+0+0+1 = 3 = meh.

― mark s, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'm looking forward to 2019 - that's when Blade Runner is set. Hover cars and replicants = yayus!

― DavidM, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

there is a sci-fi film named 2010, it has John Lithgow in it. i think it's based on Arthur C Clarke but i am not sure.

― katie, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Transformers the Movie is supposed to take place in 2005, so that's something to look forward to. In just three years, we will have sports cars from the 80's and construction equipment that save us from an f-15, a boom box and a gun.

― timothy, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

You notice that it's always the christian calender we go by for science fiction? Because if it was the Hebrew year, it would be like the year 5886, which would confuse everybody, because that was 1975 AD or something.

― Gage-o, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

2023 is when Sewer, Gas & Electric takes place. That is what I want my world to be like, that or Illuminatus!

― Maria, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Government-sponsored cannibalism will be all the rage in 2022 according to Soylent Green.

― Arthur, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

As nobody else has i'll "rush" to Zager and Evans rescue. In the year 2525 is not a crap song. why else would it be adapted for the theme to Cleopatra 2525... err, well forget that. i like it. i'm looking forward to 2525, if man is still alive that is. Not even the poor Visage cover of it will put me off.

― Alan at home, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

And the fourth greatest film of all time is set [partially] in 2015.

― Graham, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Is there still a comic called 2000AD? I have a soft spot for the Zager & Evans song "In the year 2525", probably because it was No. 1 on the day I was born.

― MarkH, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The next palindromic year isn't until 2112. The realisation that this will be the last palindromic year in my lifetime makes me a little sad, and simultaneously determined to make the most of it.

― Trevor, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

You and your time travel scepticism.

― N., Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

If time travel gets invented, I would have come back and told myself about it by now.

― Trevor, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

You are forgetting about the 'Let's go back and stop Trevor and his ilk going back in time to tell their younger selves about time travel and fucking up things' blitz of 2289.

― N., Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

And you're forgetting the 2332 Amnesia Project.

― Trevor, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

2112 = Rush LP thus of interest to all surely

― mark s, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I was surprised nobody had said anything yet...

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Apparently in 1983 Jimi Hendrix going to become a merman.

― N., Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ethel Merman

― mark s, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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