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When The Matrix pegged 1999 as the peak of human culture, we laughed. Who's laughing now? Or as Hunter S. Thompson said, way back in 1971, "We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave... So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark -- that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."