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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (2286)7/27/1998 2:25:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
'What makes it harder for the public to take the problem seriously is the media's
abysmal ignorance. Take this clueless comment by Bill Press, co-host of CNN's
"Crossfire" on the evening of Clinton's Y2K speech: "We're going to have to run
down to the store and pay $49.95 for some piece of software to fix our home
computer, and then the whole thing will be over. Sing `Auld Lang Syne.'"

Nonetheless, the public appears hungry for the facts. June Y2K best-sellers were
(in descending order): Ed Yourdon's Time Bomb 2000 (on the top five paperback
business publications in the New York Times, July 5); Jesse Feiler's Finding and
Fixing Your Year 2000 Problem; Peter de Jager's Managing 00: Surviving the
Year 2000 Computing Crisis; and Y2K-It's Already Too Late (fiction) by Jason
Kelly.
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