On the threshold of a new millennium, Bryan Appleyard asks the questions: Who are we? Where are we going? How will we get there? And what will we be when we arrive?

 No time like the present
pub. The Sunday Times Magazine, Feb 28, 1999

 The ends of the earth
pub. The Sunday Times Magazine, Feb 21, 1999

 The gene genie
pub. The Sunday Times Magazine, Feb 14, 1999

 Millennium vision
pub. The Sunday Times Magazine, Feb 7, 1999