For curmudgeonly purists like myself, who know that the third millennium begins in 2001, not 2000, the extravaganzas of the past New Year's Eve failed to address some fundamental issues confronting information professionals. It is my overall impression that the past few years have been a series of steps forward and steps backward. Databases have disappeared from traditional online hosts to reappear on the Web, sometimes with added functionality, more often with diminished functionality. On some traditional hosts, sources have been added, but with much less fanfare than in the prior millennium. Everyone is struggling to understand availability, pricing, format, and delivery mechanisms.
Search engines mutate overnight.
Stability of information is problematic. The very definition of research is being redefined. Shopping sites that display prices are deemed to be research worthy if they include descriptions of products. Somehow that's not the definition most information professionals give to research. The nineties were a time of upheaval.