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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (36449)	11/17/1998 6:58:00 AM
From: accountclosed	Respond to of 132070

I know it's a serious problem. I have been involved in a y2k project. And I am not trying to make light of huge problem for industry, etc. But at a certain level, it seems to me to be a little bit of a bourgeois armchair war. The average person's computer not working for a day or two, or caught in an elevator, or a red light that didn't work, or a japanese watch that had to be pitched. And we have a clock counting down to when the main thrust of the glitch happens. Haven't most of us, at one time or another, had to deal with a computer disk failure that screwed us up for days or weeks? On the other hand, imagine how much your life might have changed (or ended) last weekend if you lived in Baghdad. I think that the very serious issues are the of type of air traffic control, hospitals, government checks to people that live from one to the next, etc. But to me, most of the glitches that we will have to navigate will end up being just good stories to tell future generations.