An introduction and an analysis of the y2k bug in the new millenium 2000
Information Agency, on how each country's Y2K problems will affect others in the global economy, as quoted in: Minerd, Jeff. The "19" was left out.
The boundaries between technologies and communities blur in these depictions; the failure of one would precipitate the failure of the other.
The technology it takes to fix the computer code that imprints the date on a computer is in fact some of the earliest computer technology still in use here. Many skeptics believe it was barely a problem at all.
This is incorporated into policy as the Financial Times March 16th edition 9 describes, Federal officials have said that if they are not satisfied with other countries' plans for air traffic control, the Department of Transportation could ban flights between specified airports and the US or prevent US airlines and code sharers from flying over certain countries.
It is our progress and technological advancement itself that threatens to undo us now as Y2K approaches. Engineers shortened the date because data storage in computers was costly and took up a lot of space.
Perrow, Charles. The flaw, faced by computer programmers and users all over the world on January 1,is also known as the "millennium bug. Mainframe computers, including those typically used to run insurance companies and banks, were thought to be subject to the most serious Y2K problems, but even newer systems that used networks of desktop computers were considered vulnerable.
Similarly, the Chicago Tribune on March 21st of this year described Brazil benefiting from their technological 'lag' in terms of air travel, saying "In Brazil, air-traffic control, run on an old four-digit French computer system, should have no millennium problems at all".
The cultural narrative is that it is no longer our own organizations and institutions that we cannot trust, but rather those untrustworthy, uncertain ones far away from here that do not have the benefit of our technological know-how or expendable resources.
Banks, which calculate interest rate s on a daily basis, faced real problems.