Imagine that 1% of all software had an issue, across all of the economic tissue of the developed world. Now imagine that this software would start failing, all

Imagine that 1% of all software had an issue, across all of the economic tissue of the developed world. Now imagine that this software would start failing, all on January 1st 2000, everywhere around the world. Or better still, not failing, just silently corrupting data. Just like the crisis we are currently facing in our health systems, it seems unlikely that we would have had enough IT resources to deal with the issues in real-time. This is one of the cases of a "self-denying-prophecy", much like acid rain. There was an issue, we collectively dealt with it (better yet, we actually anticipated!), and now people are saying that in the end there was no issue. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190823-can-lessons-from-acid-rain-help-stop-climate-change https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190823-can-lessons-from...