Popular Culture Review Vol. 12, No. 1, February 2001 | Page 7

Introduction
The articles collected in this “true” millennium issue are gathered from around
the world - from the countries of Australia, England, and Slovenia to the states of
Michigan, Illinois, Nebraska, Arkansas, Texas, Arizona and California in the U.S.
And, as always, our topics are equally diverse. Appropriately, speculations and
concerns about “The Future” — within fiction, popular television, and scientific
theory — populate these pages, inspiring questions and opinions about the growing
dominance of our Internet-centered world and the possibilities and problems that
become its inevitable consequences.
But we also move back in time in this issue to include discussions of how and
why the life of historical figure, Richard III, and particular Beatles’ songs retain
popularity here in the 2F‘ century. We also r