Well, Y2K has come and gone with little effect. Must be awful for folks like Gary North who made their reputations by predicting disasterous results. I admit I was a little taken in by the hysteria over a year ago. I forsaw disturbances in big cities that apparently didn't happen. Well, no big deal for me. The end result is I don't have to buy ammo next time I go to the shooting range and I've got some bottled water. But I never said "I maintain that the y2k problem is systemic. It cannot be fixed. The interconnections are too many." Gary's got to be pretty embarassed to be so sure about his forecast and yet so very wrong. I guess that's what happens when you ask an historian about the effect of a computer bug.

I was really looking forward to that total collapse of civilization thing though. A real shame!