What If the 21st Century Begins in 2014?
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Jan. 1 (Bloomberg) -- As if you didn’t already have enoughto be nervous about, here’s something creepy to ponder as thenew year opens.
This what-if isn’t technological, social, political or evenscience-fictional. Rather, it’s a bit of wholly unscientific,superstitious pattern-recognition. The last two centuries (andpossibly more) didn’t “start” at their official point, theturning of a calendar from 00 to 01. That wasn’t when they beganin essence, nor when they first bent the arc of history.