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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (46491)	1/1/2000 1:29:00 PM
From: PaulM	Respond to of 116815

Don't see it quite that way, Jesse. There's very good reason to ask at this time why so much was made of the impact on electricity, aviation, transportation, gas, nuclear etc. I am no expert, but I do have a background in computer science and had often wondered what it is that's really date related about driving a car or generating or distributing electricity. The fact that even the economic basket cases of the world came through Jan 1 just fine shows that it is this factor--the infrequency of date-dependant applications--and not so much the Y2k remediation that allowed us to sail through Jan 1 OK. Y2k hysteria is a function of the same superficial sci-fi thinking that's propelling the NASDAQ and is now also fashionable even among otherwise educated people: "Gee, Computers are running everything in our world. Someday, they'll be running us too" (ala the MATRIX, the LAWNMOWER MAN, WAR GAMES and on and on). The worth of the remediation efforts will be tested in the coming weeks in banking, insurance, securities and adminstrative departments of all businesses, in which virtually everything that is done is date related. These sectors are the heart of America's service-based economy. If Y2k shaves a quarter point off productivity--who knows, that might be enough to prick the bubble.