Consumers’ Research Magazine issues in year 2000

Consumers’ Research Magazine issues in year 2000 (Technology, Mechanics, and otherwise)

• Flipping through year 2000 Consumer's Research Magazine articles not only gave me a peek at what was going on in the world of technology and mechanics at the time, but also a small window into the social context of year 2000.

- Email now widely used (3 emails per every piece of postage mail)
- Macs break the “mold of the drab beige PC” with colorful fruity computers.


- Energy crisis - gas prices rising to an expensive national average of $1.57

- Cars are being made with higher emissions standards, are less harmful to the environment. For example Volvo S80’s radiator coated with a chemical which converts smog into clean air.
- Safe Dietary Supplements ~ healthy diets, safe food and pills etc. seem to be a common issue in 2000
- Hybrid cars are becoming available, for example the Toyota Prius

• In my notes from the Consumer Research Magazines in 2000, I am seeing some of the very same issues we are seeing today in 2008. In particular, concern about rising gas prices, motion toward environmentally friendly cars, and healthy diet/food safety concerns. It will be interesting to see if we can trace the changes in these social concerns in other teams' information in the years between ours (2000) and the present.
  

Source: Consumers’ Research Magazine 2000; Vol. 83; Jan, Feb, April, June, Aug, Oct; Publisher M. Stanton Evans; Editor Peter L. Spencer; Published in Washington DC.