Introduction Forward, march A proposal for a fresh start The I's have it What happened to ''We, the people?'' Getting and spending Consumerism, passion for possessions Easy for you to say Will we understand the changing English language? The war channel Do we comprehend the media's instanteneous images of war? Time capsule What dozens of Bostonians would sock away for 1,000 years - Your time capsules Tell us what YOU would sock away for 1,000 years The color line The paradox of race will follow us Isn't it Romantic? Arts and culture's mild last act Not fade away The Rolling Stones tour of 2030 That old thing What "antiques" are worth keeping Game plans Sports can get bigger and more commercial: - The greediest - The neediest - The biggest - The greatest Branches of the family A mother teaches lessons in life Bellamy's blissful ignorance The writer will find a utopian Boston Y2K: Ready or not Poll: What will the millennium bring? Live chat: Banter with your fellow millennium- approachers National International Washington, D.C. Canada Europe Latin America Middle East Africa Far East Russia Weekly Health | Science (Mon.) Food (Wed.) Calendar (Thu.) At Home (Thu.) Picture This (Fri.) Sunday Automotive Focus Learning Magazine New England Real Estate Travel City Weekly South Weekly West Weekly North Weekly NorthWest Weekly NH Weekly Features Archives Book Reviews Columns Comics Crossword Horoscopes Death Notices Lottery Movie Reviews Music Reviews Obituaries Special Reports Today's stories A-Z TV & Radio Weather Classifieds Autos Classifieds Help Wanted Real Estate Help Contact the Globe Send us feedback Alternative views Low-graphics version Acrobat version (.pdf) [an error occurred while processing this directive]

Visions Reflections, forecasts, and fantasies on the nation . . . millennial angst . . . community . . . consumerism . . . language . . . war . . . preservation . . . race . . . arts and culture . . . aging . . . possessions . . . sports . . . family . . . utopia Time capsule Learn what your fellow Bostonians would put in a time capsule for 2999. So, here we all are. But where are we, really? At the end of a decade? The end of a century? The end of a millennium? Or is this a new beginning, a fresh start? The truth is that the year 2000 represents all of those things. And your perspective is profoundly shaped by how you are facing the fact that the big 2-0-0-0 is just around the corner. If you're crawling with apocalyptic angst or Y2K heebie-jeebies, and have fortified yourself behind a stockade of canned tuna fish and jumbo packs of D batteries, then the year 2000 isn't exactly a dream date. If you are in the ''What, me worry?'' camp, or do not not adhere to the timetable of the western world, then Jan. 1, 2000, is just another day. In between, I suspect, are most of us, viewing the event, if not religiously and spiritually, then with at least a bit of reflection and prognostication. So that's what we're doing here. This section - the first of several millennial projects The Boston Globe will publish this year - considers the views behind, toward, and beyond the year 2000. We ponder who we are, where we've been, and where we are going. And we have tossed in some humor, too. In the coming months, we will publish four special editions of The Boston Globe Magazine: New Frontiers of Health, Science, and technology (May 23); Boston and Bostonians (June 20); The Millennium: A 1000-year view (Oct. 3); and, finally, New England: the future of the region (Nov. 7). We'll continue the conversation - literally - with a series of public forums on topics such as the future of the city, which will take place in mid-June, and two others in the fall on arts and culture, and politics. We'll soon be announcing the complete schedule in the pages of the Globe. Year 2000, here we come. Last one in's a rotten egg. -Ande Zellman, Editor Visions for the classroom Sets of 30 copies of Visions are available at the prepaid educational rate of 25 cents per copy through the Globe's Newspaper in Education program. Send your check by March 19 to: The Boston Globe, Attn: NIE, Box 2379, Boston, MA 02107-2378.

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