Newsweek Extra |2000: The Power Of Invention | Magazine

From the Winter of 1997 - 1998

How an explosion of discoveries changed our lives in the 20th Century

Plus: what awaits us in the 21st. This issue lays out a chronological guide to some of the biggest breakthroughs of the last century.

Stop for a minute and consider what the world was like when this magazine hit the stands in late 1997. Y2K was a looming threat. The World Trade Center still stood in New York City.  The internet was just making its way into American homes.  Google was only a few months old. Bill Clinton was "not having sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky."  Covid Lockdowns and mask mandates were still two decades away...

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