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The reason we can joke about Y2K today is because many people took it seriously and as a result the real problems were fixed in time. If you take a threat seriously and prepare for it, people scoff at the work that was done. When a threat isn’t taken seriously you get disaster.
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COVID is what we thought Y2K would be.
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I recognize that I get worked up about this. But I have spent far too much time reading technical reports, Congressional hearings, digging through archives, and talking to IT workers (I’m writing a dissertation on Y2K) to not get frustrated by people treating Y2K like a joke.
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