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STRANGE DAYS' tale of a virtual-reality junkie on a killing spree in race-torn L.A. is only one pop-culture take on the end of the 20th century. 1999 has inspired other millennial meditations, including Denzel Washington's movie Virtuosity, Prince's hit song ''1999,'' Martin Landau's TV show Space: 1999, and President Richard Nixon's book 1999: Victory Without War. Too impatient to wait the four years and see, we asked mentalist-prognosticator the Amazing Kreskin which of these visions foretells the future.
STRANGE DAYS High-tech voyeurs download CDs of other people's memories to their cerebral cortices. Kreskin foretells: ''This will happen. I don't know about the compact discs, but people will have sex interactively without a partner. I'd put down a $10,000 bet on that one.''
VIRTUOSITY Trendy leather-clad cops match wits with a virtual killer sprung from an interactive police-training program to terrorize 1999 L.A. Kreskin foretells: ''I don't think computers can create a supervillain, but villains will use computers to become more ruthless. And the police in Europe are already very stylish, so they could dress like that.''
SPACE: 1999 Martin Landau heads a lunar colony cast adrift by a nuclear explosion. Kreskin foretells: ''Not possible by 1999, but if it were, we should send 70 percent of our attorneys there. It would be a great step forward.''
RICHARD NIXON'S 1999: VICTORY WITHOUT WAR Nixon's geopolitical blueprint predicts that U.S. leadership will end war and secure global peace. Kreskin foretells: ''I admire Nixon as a visionary. But I'm afraid there'll only be peace after a great calamity. I pray to God I'm wrong.''
PRINCE'S ''1999'' ''We could all die any day/ But before I'll let that happen/ I'll dance my life away.'' Kreskin foretells: ''New Year's Eve 1999 will be a riotous time. It'll give people an excuse to totally break out. You'll be able to get drunk with people all over the world over your computer.''
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