The great anti-climax
By Mitch Ratcliffe, ZDY2K
Thursday December 30, 1999
zdnet.com
SNIP:
>>But, recognizing that much needed to be done, we should not include the doomers in our congratulations. These people, who have exploited fear to push the most anti-social and back-handed economic agendas, did not do anyone any favors. For every family that will have to forego other expenses because they spent far too much on Y2K supplies after reading the irresponsible rants of the doomers, these profiteers should receive a smart blow to the cheek. Or, perhaps we should just turn our other cheek and record the identities of these people so that they will never be trusted enough to get away with this kind of abuse, again. In any case, if, on Monday morning, a doomer claims to have saved the world by raising his voice to warn people that the end of the world was nigh, give him a smack for me.<<
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I have been exchanging e-mails with Mitch Ratcliffe today, about my concern that there could have been more too Y2K than meets the eye, basically in my opinion it appears to be a major money making racket.
This is what he said:
E-Mail posted with his permission:
>> I think that some consultants billed far too much, and there was certainly no lack of opportunistic publishing. However, there was a very real problem and many consultants and conference producers were serving a valuable and important role. All in all, my experience tells me that there was no more exploitation of Y2K than usual among technology consultants. Of course, there is a lot of exploitation of fears of obsolescence all the time.
See my last piece, published Thursday, on ZDY2K.
Mitch <<
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