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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (84)2/11/1998 1:00:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (2) of 618
 
'...a confined area when there's a real risk of power failure'

From www.year-2000.com:

'Millennium expert forecasts doom for Mandelson's dome

If you are planning to celebrate New Year's Eve 1999 at Peter Mandelson's pleasure dome in Greenwich - don't. That's the advice of millennium consultant Martyn Emery, who is convinced that official celebrations in the 1,000ft wide, Teflon-coated tent will be put off until 2001 at the earliest.

"The celebrations will almost certainly be delayed. It's a question of whether you are prepared to take the risk of having 30,000 people, including royalty, in a confined area when there's a real risk of power failure," he said.

Emery is well placed to assess the millennium bug's impact on electricity supplies. As head of Corporation 2000, he has advised organisations in London and New York on the potential effects of the century date change on utilities and urban infrastructures.

He said the minister without portfolio, who has taken personal responsibility for the controversial project, would delay celebrations "as the downside of not doing so is far worse than the potential political embarrassment".

Emery suggested the site might be used to celebrate the 50th anniversary of 1951's Festival of Britain, or what many believe is the true beginning of the third millennium, 1 January 2001. '
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