John Voita is the Managing Editor of Bright Side of the Sun, co-host of the Suns JAM Session Podcast, and has been a credentialed member of the Phoenix media since 2023.
We have turned the calendar over to a new year. 2025. We are a quarter of the way through the century. Wasn’t it just Y2K? Wasn’t I just out in the middle of the Superstition Mountains huddled around a campfire with my high school buddies, drinking Goldschläger, listening to R.E.M.’s It’s the End of the World As We Know It, preparing to return to a society taken down by the simple fact that two digits weren’t programmed into computers?