Predictions for the Next Millennium: Thoughts on the 1,000 Years Ahead from Today's Celebrities

By David Kristof

Book Overview

Offers predictions by individuals from such fields as television and film, Nobel Laureates, American and world government, literature, and sports. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0836269160
• ISBN13: 9780836269161
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

An impressive list of contributors with meaningful messages.

This book is surprisingly interesting. With contributions from space pioneers, world leaders, politicians, entertainers, cultural icons, sports figures, and Nobel laureates, the book serves both as a collection of the here and now (who we are, culturally, at the end of this millennium), as well as a springboard for dreams of where we are going. From the manager of the Mars exploration program's prediction of the imminent discovery of past life on Mars, to Joan River's humorous "interest rates will be higher and my breasts will be lower," reading this book is a lot of fun. Contributors include Ed Asner, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Arthur C. Clarke, The Dalai Lama, Marlin Fitzwater, George Gallup, George Harrison, Garry Kasparov, Norman Leer, Robert McNamara, Scott O'Grady, Richard Pryor, Norm Schwarzkopf, Desmond Tutu, Earl Weaver, Chuck Yeager, and many more. A fun read, a worthy keepsake to commemorate the turn of the century/millennium, and a great gift book, too.

A surprisingly good approach to the Millennium theme

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. Rather than a corny collection of predictions from self declared psychics,these celebrities actually offer intelligent and interesting ideas about the future and are generally pretty humble in their views. Some are betterr than others, but hats off to the editors for putting together such a diverse group of names and not just pandering to Hollywood and sports figures. Many seem to be statements about mankind and not just rattling off specific events ( although some of those are pretty scary, like Bob McNamara"s). The James Michener message is worth the price of the book alone, and how they got Gore Vidal and Arthur C Clarke all within the same cover is a book lovers dream. I think the scientists and astronauts are the best, but was surprised at how profound many of the movie stars can also be. I do hope this book is a trend for the millennium reading we will be seeing next year, but I doubt most of the stuff will be as sincere or interesting as this little book turns out to be.