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

To: John Mansfield who wrote (2028)	6/21/1998 6:13:00 PM
From: foobert	Respond to of 9818

BROTHER - THERE IS STILL TIME TO PREPARE Not my words, but words on a banner shown on ths final closing scene from a movie I recently saw on television. It was from "On the Beach" based on the 1957 novel by Nevil Shute. changeover.com I was fascinated by this story, since I read part of it when it first came out in the late 1950's from a serialization that appeared in a weekend news magazine. I have recently got a copy from my local library and read it again. (a very easy read, well recommended) It is set in Melbourne Australia in the early 1960's. About the time the Cuban Missile crisis was at it's height! The story is about the coming end of the world based on a runaway nuclear war that wiped out civilization in the northern hemisphere, and slowly and gradually was doing the same to the southern hemisphere as the radiation clouds spread themselves south. A US nuclear submarine takes shelter here, and does two investigative missions to determine the state of affairs back home. It described the actions of a large group of people preparing to face the worst case scenario that was coming down on them. I was quite surprised at some of the scenarios that Shute envisaged. Quite different from what I would have expected. Some of these were: - When the submarine went to investigate a random radio transmission coming from the Seattle area supposedly more than a year after the "war", it found the source of the transmission was from a transmitter key (like a telegraph key) being randomly activated by the window frame as it was moved by the wind. THE POWER WAS STILL ON EVEN THOUGH NO ONE HAD BEEN AROUND FOR OVER A YEAR! - The citizens did not panic, there was no massive looting. Stores remained open to the end, and gave things away for free. - Speculation about the cause of the war. From the book: "The whole thing started in Albania." The point is - we may be quite surprised by things happening that we did not expect, and some expected events will not occur as predicted. Which brings us back to today and the y2k situation. There are those who are predicting apocalyse coming down on us in about 558 days from now. Now go back and read the first line.