[muziq]

And as for the 90s, there's plenty of good stuff there...just a snippet:

*Friends & Seinfeld (love it or hate it, those shows had a HUGE impact on not just American culture, but global perceptions of American culture)

*Electronica (although I hate that term, all music since the 90s has been influenced either at the compositional, engineering, or performance stage by the innovations that arose from 90s dance, experimental, and ambient music)

*Dot-com decade (who doesn't visit at least *ONE* website every single day of their life that doesn't end in .com? Even my hillbilly cousins in NW Arkansas who only got dial-up two years ago are on the internet daily)

*Another term I've been thinking about to characterize the 90s - the decade of the geopolitical interregnum - where the end of the Cold War produced a vacuum of global *political* leadership that was mostly dominated by the rise of multinationalism, until we get to the "Double Aughts" where the threat of terrorism puts the light back on the US...with China and India entering the spotlight.