Never for a thousand years
Something started in 2000 that will not be repeated for another 990 years. No longer will we refer to the year as two-thousand and one or two thousand and two etc. Today, we start referring to our year as twenty-ten or twenty-eleven (next year). Not until the year 3000 will we once again refer to the year in the long form rather than the butchering of the English language we normally used for 19XX and will once again continue in 2010 and beyond.
English might progress in the next 990 years to be unrecognizable. It could be the last time we ever refer to the year in that fashion. There was a brief attempt to refer to the year as Y2K but it didn’t follow much into Y2K+1 or any further.
No, we shed a tear for the long form of the year that will rarely be used again. We say good-bye.
What will we be doing in Y3k? Will we be finally flying cars to the mall? Will we have malls? Will the malls be located on different planet systems run by apes?
Or will humanity even make it that far? Will robots turn on their masters and kill us with large bloody machinery? Will nuclear warfare or the Large Hadron Collider destroy us all? Will we be wiped out by a plague of biblical proportions?
I don’t care. It’ll be someone else’s problem I’m sure.
