> We are doomed. Doubt it. Any disruption will probably be two orders of magnitude less than the COVID-19 pandemic. Most systems (like self driving cars or p

> We are doomed. Doubt it. Any disruption will probably be two orders of magnitude less than the COVID-19 pandemic. Most systems (like self driving cars or payments) will be 64-bit and unaffected. Anything critical still running 32-bit will be on these kinds of debian distros or NetBSD or whatever. The stuff that breaks will mostly be flashing-VCR-time impacts that can be worked around (timestamps on security cameras may wrap around to 1970 and be impossible to set to the correct date, but the cameras should still continue working). There may be stupid companies that go bankrupt because all their devices fail hard and they get sued out of existence, but that kind of impact happens all the time. Just looking at something like the list of largest trading losses in banks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trading_losses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trading_losses The economy has a very large capacity for dumbassery. Most hard failures will just be Keynesian stimulus for their competitors. Any hard failures that result in losses to the customers (e.g. stores robbed because security cameras down) will get absorbed by insurance -- and really they're already getting robbed so much by smash and grabs with stolen vehicles I doubt it matters.