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Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)

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Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)

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Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)

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Colette Shade’s Darkly Funny Collection of Essays is a History Lesson in the Y2K Era

Touching on everything from AIM to MTV, the Towson resident's first book, 'Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything,' explores how the utopian dreams of the early digital age instead became a dystopian, neoliberal reality for Millennials.