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
Right, but there was another dude (not a Christian prepper but a granola hippie type) who made an equally sweeping claim that the Y2K bug was a "systemic fault" in our technological society and that by definition systemic failures could not be corrected
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I very much remember him explaining that the Y2K disaster was completely inevitable because if there was even one computer in our networked world still passing bad data on January 1 it would infect everything else in the system and bring it crashing down
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Which is as wrong as the first guy but just in the other direction
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