Zak's Y2K List

1/1/2000

  • 70 CE Destruction of the Second Temple.
  • 1948 CE Creation of the modern State of Israel.
  • 1911-1995 CE Akiva Kohane, LLD:a scholar and true servant to his people.

 

  • Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Turing, Watson & Crick
  • The Internet.
  • Penicillin and ether.

 

  • Prediction: Within 10 years, artificially grown bio-organs are used routinely for human organ replacement.
  • Prediction: No manned mission to Mars within the next 15 years (alas).