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To: TEDennis who wrote (841)1/7/1998 8:34:00 AM
From: Joseph E. McIsaac  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9818
 
<< An interesting hypothesis. A bit on the ragged edge, I think, because not all software will be deemed worthless ... but a definite out-of-the-boundary-box thought.>>

Tony Keyes has described Y2K using the simile of a "digital forest fire" in which the burn stage is destructive and consuming (i. e. the retirement of old technology) but afterwards there is a climate in which new growth (technology) can take hold.