What do you think of that question: Was our avoidance of problems with Y2K a sign of successful problem solving or something closer to Chicken Little? Please give your thoughts in the comments below.
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I really liked this Y2K retrospective on Slate, http://www.slate.com/id/2235357/entry/2235359/. The article makes a point that it is one of the few times in recent history where people worked pro-actively to work on something. The article asks the question if we spent too much time and money worrying about the problem. I wish that the article had deleved into that answer deeper.
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 09:29
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David E. Bowman
Andy, Better that we collectively spent too much time on this problem than too little. Clearly there was a lot of hype about Y2K, and much of it was manufactured to sell things. Still, it did force companies to examine our dependence on information technology systems and consider the implications should they crash. Y2K for all it's hype really did get people to collaborate in new ways, explore new ideas, and implement new technology. Y2k was an impetus for change. Think we can leverage the 2012 hype for something?
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