My impression is the same as dwheeler. Y2K could have been a crisis were it not for the swift, expensive and sometimes heroic actions of coders who saved us fro

My impression is the same as dwheeler. Y2K could have been a crisis were it not for the swift, expensive and sometimes heroic actions of coders who saved us from a calamity. I don't know that putting gallons of water in the basement was a necessity - water treatment plants probably would have still functioned - but even those plants are controlled by computers, so I'd say it was collective action.