Okay: Y2K didn't happen. Got that? There was no "Y2K Crisis." Civilization as we know it did not come to an end at one second past midnight on the morning of January 1, 2000. So if you got into an argument with someone who said it wouldn't happen, and maybe suggested that his doubts were due to a limited mental capacity, or that he was simply too lazy to consult the latest "information" on the subject, then perhaps you owe that person an apology, because nothing that was predicted to accompany the arrival of the year 2000 due to the absence of two decimal places in the year fields of programs and operating systems EVER happened! NOTHING! I know because I was there, along with about 6 billion other people. And many of us monitored the progression of the new millennium as it began at the International Date Line and moved west through Asia, Australia, Europe, to where I was then living in the Chicago area, and beyond. Our public utilities continued to function, our computers continued to work, and our nuclear missiles remained in their silos. People on life-support systems in hospitals didn't turn up dead, refrigeration systems didn't fail, and our water supplies remained safe. In short: nothing happened. NOTHING! Even though virtually every important industry in our global economy admitted that the "Y2K Problem" was still years away from being completely solved, and that the "Y2K Bug" would still permeate our systems for quite some time, NOTHING HAPPENED. The supposed "bug" that was going to be responsible for the "problem" that would inevitably lead to a "crisis" that would send us back to the Dark Ages while perhaps triggering Armageddon NEVER happened! Was there ANY result from this Y2K fiasco? No. Instead, the ultimate mega-event of all recorded history became known for primarily one thing: that nothing happened. We waited for something to happen. We looked for something to happen. January 1 went by. January 2 went by. January itself went by, and through February and March of 2000 we still thought something might happen, but nothing did. Nothing, that is, except that for a certain cadre of unscrupulous authors, such as the one who wrote this book, the party was over, and there was no more money to be made off uninformed and/or gullible readers from THIS particular scare scenario. For them, it was time to cash-out. Live to write another day. Take the money and run. I hope they invested it all in Enron.
