About the 1990's The wheels of the universe shifted once again: another war incredible technical achievements in all disciplines of science, a shift from the Reagan-Bush era to the Clinton years, world trade on a scale without precedent, economic growth this country hadn't seen for forty years, an incurably romantic president who made us realize we're all just human (by the way the word comes from the Latin "humus", which means "of the earth"), a generation called "X" (because they're such an unknown quantity), and an increasing awareness of the urgency of correcting our environmental mistakes (if it isn't already too late). The nineties were a decade of research, quantum realizations, moral quandaries, the power of litigation (I'll be suing you), and the exciting, daring, scary, inevitable technology that would change our world forever.