And they said it wouldn't last...
2010; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 11; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1186/gb-2010-11-5-121
ISSN1465-6914
Autores Tópico(s)Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
ResumoAs years go, 2000 was an eventful one.It was, of course, the beginning of a new millennium (I know, strictly speaking that should have been 2001, but no one seriously considered doing it that way).e dreaded Y2K bug that was supposed to shut down half the world's computers proved to be nothing but a bonanza for computer consultants.George W Bush was about to be elected President of the United States, thereby proving that in my country, an ordinary bloke can grow up to be president (provided that their father had been president, they came from one of the richest and most powerful families in the land, and had been handed virtually everything they ever got on a silver plate).e most popular songs included 'It's gonna be me' by a group called 'N Sync and a rap song called ' e real Slim Shady' by Eminem.e most popular baby names for boys were Jacob, Michael, and Joshua, which might make you wonder if the whole country had been converted to Judaism, except that the most popular girls' names were Emily, Madison, and Ashley, which suggested that if it had, it had been converted to Jewish WASPs.e mostwatched television show in the US was a program called 'Survivor' .It was the first example of new concept called reality TV -a genre that was going to represent the nadir of the medium for the entire decade to come.In the movie theatres, the most popular films that year were 'Spider-Man' , ' e Lord of the Rings: e Two Towers' , 'Star Wars: Episode II -Attack of the Clones' , and 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' -fantasy adventures, every one.As the summer of 2000 approached, no one realized that, whereas they were immersing themselves in fake reality on television and fake unreality at the cinema, their real world was about to change forever.On 9 June 2000, the first edition of Genome Biology appeared, both online and in print.It included a column by yours truly called ' e grail problem' [1].e second issue, on 28 July, contained a second opinion column by the same author, this one entitled 'Dog eat dogma ' [2]; it discussed how genomics was changing the Central
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