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It's an interesting statement but if taken at its face value, we should have all been a lot more worried about December 21st, 2012 and the Mayan Calendar ending
by gugachiu 12y ago
It's an interesting statement but if taken at its face value, we should have all been a lot more worried about December 21st, 2012 and the Mayan Calendar ending.
- cordite 12y agoMaybe the Y2K hype softened most of those who would react.
- cstross 12y agoY2K wasn't hype: if we hadn't done the work, the outcome would have been moderately gruesome. (Not world-ending-apocalyptic gruesome, but not-getting-paid-for-a-month-and-the-stock-market-crashed gruesome.) Indeed, it was largely due to Y2K resilience preparations that the Federal Reserve managed to keep running on 9/11: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/10/1328813/-The-Astonishing-Story-of-the-Federal-Reserve-on-9-11 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/10/1328813/-The-Astoni... Upshot: it might look like hype, but sometimes it's actually the symptom of a bullet dodged just in time. (Which is why I hope that this time next year, when we look back at the Ebola outbreak, there will be plenty of folks saying "nope, it was overhyped fear-mongering".)