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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeff Redman who wrote (816)	1/2/1998 7:25:00 PM
From: Don S.Boller	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Jeff: I tend to agree with you in the main thrust - the Y2K may not be the end of Western Civ.. Recently got 3 separate mailers on this (dupes) from Dr. Gary North. Many years ago - took his service...not too hot. My son is a program tester for a local (IBM based computer co.). They work with utility-type cos around the world. Their clients have no fear of Y2K!!!! they're "compliant" now! (Hard to recall now, but think Dr. G.N. was one of thoseconvinced that the "coming meltdown" in Japanese stock market (which did occur) - would crash ours like the 30's bust?!?! HNY to all Don

To: Jeff Redman who wrote (816)	1/3/1998 11:01:00 AM
From: Joseph E. McIsaac	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

<<There will be problems come 2000, but not the over hyped ones that has a minority going into a panic. >> I agree in general with you on this -- speculative predictions of disaster do seem to be possibly out-of-line. The fascinating thing about this problem is that no one will be able to predict what exactly is going to happen! Unlike naturally re-occuring rare events (like sun spots or comet arrivals), I truly this to be one of the few one-time occurances in planetary history. It has never happened before and it never will happen again in a world that is both still emerging technologically yet already heavily dependant on this technology (Year 10000 won't have the same potential impact, everyone will be using VB by then :-)