  The study of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a rapidly maturing
field. In remarkable advances in the past two years, experiments have begun to
probe the detailed structure of the CMB angular spectrum thereby providing
insight into the contents of the universe. We briefly review the BOOMERanG and
DASI results with an emphasis on what the data tell us with only minimal
cosmological assumptions. After a short discussion about a grand future for CMB
physics, key features of the MAP satellite, now in orbit, are described. We
also discuss how we anticipate MAP will advance the field beyond what we know
now.
