How Britney Spears Ushered in a New Era of Pop

The dawn of the twenty-first century was characterized, primarily, by something that did not happen. I have some fuzzy recollections of Y2K, the panic at the end of the 1990s that ensued after a handful of computer scientists raised concerns that the new year would bring mass system failure and worldwide chaos since computer code, which categorized what year it was by the last two digits of the annum, would be unable to tell the difference between 1900 and 2000.