Ground zero, carbon zero, Coke Zero — do these zeros reveal something profound about postmillennial culture?
The year 2000 was once symbolic of “the future” — the world of tomorrow filled with utopian possibilities for art, science, and technology. Entering the millennium, something is awry in the spirit of tomorrow for there exists a strange pattern of “zeros” in culture and technology related to the space-time coordinates of the future. What do these zeros suggest? Void or emptiness, end or beginning, the past or the future for utopia? It is ground zero for theory.