Russell Blinch:
Extracted from "On the Internet The Future Is Nigh"

...International Data Corp. has predicted the Internet's population would rise to 200 million by 2000 from 40 million now...

... static newsgroups and chat areas will develop into full fledged Web "conferencing" complete with both audio and visual capabilities. That's means instead of just exchanging notes, you would be able to see and hear the person you have just met from a far flung corner of the globe...

Bill Clinton:
"Let us reach for a goal in the 21st century of every home connected to the Internet and let us be brought closer together as a community through that connection."

Spike:
"In the New World Order, all cats will have Web pages."

Nobel winner predicts improved AIDS treatments

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A winner of this year's Nobel Prize in medicine predicts within 10 years there will be a vaccine sharply slowing the outbreak of full-blown AIDS in infected people. Rolf M. Zinkernagel also says the vaccine he envisioned would vastly reduce chances that an HIV-infected person would transfer the virus to other people. However, it would not completely eliminate chances of contracting the infection, he said. Zinkernagel, a Swiss researcher, spoke at a news conference Saturday. Zinkernagel and Peter C. Doherty, an Australian who is a professor in the Department of Immunology at the St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., were awarded the prize in October for their studies into the body's immune system in the 1970s.

Larie Rigby:
"On the cusp of the year 2000, we find that what Derek Taylor forecasted is true. Many people who were not alive when the Beatles broke up are discovering the music, and, in some cases, enjoying it more than their parents. We may not be radioactive, we may not smoke cigars, and we certainly don't live on Saturn, but we do draw a "sense of well-being and warmth" from the music."