That may all be true. But we've also had chicken littles screaming about the falling sky since the beginning of time. Y2k comes to mind. I was in high school a

That may all be true. But we've also had chicken littles screaming about the falling sky since the beginning of time. Y2k comes to mind. I was in high school at the time, and still remember all the breathless articles. The trains would stop, the water treatment plants would fail, the traffic lights would go haywire. Somewhere within each semi truck, grid sub-station and bank mainframe was a tiny ticking time bomb that would rollover in a few short months to 00 and implode into chaos. For the want of a few bits, the implements of modern life would become useless hunks of scrap. The crusty cobol programmers were working round the clock to stop it but there simply weren't enough of them or the source code was missing or nobody had a compiler anymore. We were doomed. Turns out, the damned lights didn't even flicker at midnight. And with rise of click-driven journalism, it's even worse.