I mean I agree but at the same time as someone who kind of got into "Y2K culture" at the time there was a tremendous amount of irresponsible doomsaying, people saying the Y2K problem *could not* be fixed and would *inevitably* lead to the collapse of the global economy
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I think that much as with global warming, exaggeration only hurts the cause, even when the real danger is very dire You don't convince people about global warming with images of enormous tidal waves instantly destroying cities
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How do we account for fiction? When we start lumping NOVELS in with the oversell that’s way too far. Pundits and popular fantasists will ALWAYS oversell things for their own reasons. That’s got nothing to do with the risk assessment and remediation by industry professionals.
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Yeah, I remember somebody running for governor in a debate giving an example of "coffee makers" as something that would break in 2000
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You can’t really cite novels as being evidence of mass hysteria. Like, there have been multiple novels about zombies written in recent years. That doesn’t mean people are actually worried about the dead rising; they’re not agitating people’s anxieties about the undead.
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