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      <dc:title>CBS NEWS "CBS.Marketwatch.com" Millennium Poll, December 1999</dc:title>
		
      		<dc:creator>CBS News</dc:creator>
      	
		
      		<dc:subject>communications systems</dc:subject>
      	
      		<dc:subject>economic conditions</dc:subject>
      	
      		<dc:subject>international relations</dc:subject>
      	
      		<dc:subject>media influence</dc:subject>
      	
      		<dc:subject>prediction</dc:subject>
      	
      		<dc:subject>public opinion</dc:subject>
      	
      		<dc:subject>quality of life</dc:subject>
      	
      		<dc:subject>social life</dc:subject>
      	
      		<dc:subject>trends</dc:subject>
      	
      		<dc:subject>twenty-first century</dc:subject>
      	
		
      		<dc:subject>ICPSR.XIV.C.1</dc:subject>
      	
      		<dc:subject>TPDRC.II</dc:subject>
      	
      	<dc:description>This special topic poll, fielded December 17-19, 1999,
focused on respondents' anticipation of life in the 21st century as
the year 2000 approached. Those queried were asked to predict the
quality of life in the 21st century on a variety of dimensions
including war, terrorism, length of the working day, religion, the
environment, equality for Blacks, and poverty. They were also asked
to assess the impact of the United States on global popular culture,
politics, art, music, and economics. Views were sought on the future
of current prominent businesses including Coca-Cola, Microsoft, the
Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com, General Electric, and Ford, and
respondents were asked to select the most important business leader of
the 20th century from a list including United States Steel founder
Andrew Carnegie, Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford, Microsoft
founder Bill Gates, McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, Standard Oil founder
John D. Rockefeller, Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, and IBM founder
Thomas Watson. Looking ahead to the end of the 21st century,
respondents were asked which of the following innovations/trends would
still be in use/existence: VCR, telephone, compact discs, printed
books, the Internet, post office mail, cars fueled by gasoline,
marriage, retirement at age 65, children raised by two parents,
various languages, and going to the office to work. A series of
questions addressed the use of medical technology in the 21st century,
including the cloning of humans, women aged 50 and over bearing
children, people living to age 100, genetically engineered babies,
altering genes to limit the risk of developing certain genetic
diseases, and altering the genetic make-up of plants, fruits, and
vegetables. Additional topics covered whether intelligent life exists
elsewhere in the universe, robots that act like humans, vacation
cruises to outerspace, whether the "new century" begins on January 1,
2000, or on January 1, 2001, belief in Armageddon, Internet commerce,
and attention paid to the 2000 political campaigns. The results of
this survey were announced on the CBS website
CBS.Marketwatch.com. Background information on respondents includes
age, sex, political party, political orientation, education, religion,
race, Hispanic descent, marital status, family income, age of children
in household, and computer access.</dc:description>
		
      	<dc:date>2011-04-18</dc:date>
	    
      	<dc:identifier>2874</dc:identifier>
      	<dc:identifier>10.3886/ICPSR02874.v2</dc:identifier>
    	
    	
      		<dc:coverage>United States</dc:coverage>
      	
		
      		<dc:coverage>1999-12</dc:coverage>
      	
      	<dc:rights> ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 
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