Millennium Manifesto

What a profound responsibility to close one millennium and open another. Recorded history is said to have begun perhaps 10,000 years ago but, until very recently, the record has been long on the seminal events and short on the stuff of everyday life. For instance, back in 999 did the prospect of adding a fourth digit to the year cause Leif Ericson and company as much anguish as the Y2K problem today? No laughing matter if the rune stones were pre-cut for three digits!

The information age changes things. Preserving a record is now easy. The challenge is to make a record worthy of preservation by a jury yet to be born. If that sounds like a sobering thought, it is – but no more so than contemplating just how few of us who ever walk the Earth actually witness a new millennium. Once in a thousand years! That makes this run up to year 2000 a special time, and we at Marine Money think it may be even more special for our industry than many think.

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