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
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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I hear you. And I recognize how in some ways that kind of nihilism also damages our ability to face massive software failures. But with respect to the story at hand, we have to acknowledge how utterly wrong it is to dismiss Y2K as “fake news” or “fraud”.
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