Remember the Sydney Olympics? How cool they were? I was talking about those wonderful few weeks in 2000 with a friend when the thought struck me how different things were back then.

As a child, the year 2000 was always put forward in science fiction and popular culture as the benchmark of a golden age. My favourite comic as a boy, 2000AD, depicted fantastic future worlds of robots, flying cars and spaceships. Now, the year 2000 is in our past and doesn’t seem to be the technological marvel it once was in our minds. So much has changed in our world that the year 2000 now illustrates how quickly we all have to adapt.