millennium bug Concepts

Global Catastrophic Risks

by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic · 2 Jul 2008

develop a vaccine for the strain [N I H , 2006].) An example of a more successful channelling oftechno-apocalyptic energies into effective prophylaxis was the Millennium Bug or Y2K phenomenon. In the late 1990s a number of writers began to warn that a feature of legacy software systems from the 1960s and

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A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s

by Alwyn W. Turner · 4 Sep 2013 · 1,013pp · 302,015 words

, more in keeping with science fiction than eschatology. As the century drew to a close, a worldwide panic arose about what became known as the Millennium Bug, a potential problem arising from the way that dates had been stored in computer code. To minimise memory use, the year had been represented by

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’ and ‘part of the rock and roll generation’, he wasn’t entirely sure of himself when it came to a straightforward computing concept like the Millennium Bug: ‘David Miliband tried to explain it once, and I honestly didn’t have a clue what he was talking about.’ The real difficulties, though, came

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England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight

by Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears · 24 Apr 2024 · 357pp · 132,377 words

twenty-first century but also for New Britain, the biggest worry in this increasingly technology-driven country was that a programming error, known as the millennium bug, or ‘Y2K’, might cause computers to crash. On the big day itself – 31 December 1999 – the IT was fine but officials panicked, first over a

The Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain?

by Polly Toynbee and David Walker · 6 Oct 2011 · 471pp · 109,267 words

to convict. And on such religious totems as abortion and stem cell research, rationalism ruled OK among Labour ministers. The worldwide scare over the Y2K millennium bug has become a classic of media hype and public gullibility – there was panicky talk of machines stopping and planes falling out of the sky. Ministers

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Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

by Matt Parker · 7 Mar 2019

and car, and I have no idea how to update those. It’s easy to write this off as a second coming of the Y2K ‘millennium bug’ that wasn’t. That was a case of higher level software storing the year as a two-digit number, which would run out after ninety

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

by Margaret O'Mara · 8 Jul 2019

greatest challenge to society that we have to face as a planetary community,” warned The Times of India ominously. The industry estimated that eliminating the “Millennium Bug” would cost $1.5 trillion. Perennially cash-strapped governments faced a hefty bill as well; governments ultimately would spend $6.5 billion on the fix

The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire

by Wikileaks · 24 Aug 2015 · 708pp · 176,708 words

government network which laid the groundwork for what became TRIPs.” Edmund J. Pratt, “Intellectual Property Rights and International Trade,” Pfizer Forum, 1996, quoted in “WTO Millennium Bug: TNC Control Over Global Trade Politics,” Corporate Europe Observer 4 (July 1999). 56See “Remarks by Ralph G. Neas on Trans Pacific Partnership,” Pharmacy Times, December

The Dream of Europe: Travels in the Twenty-First Century

by Geert Mak · 27 Oct 2021 · 722pp · 223,701 words

New Year’s Eve, I was home. ‘In the Far East the new century has already begun,’ an announcer said that afternoon on television. ‘The millennium bug seems to be keeping a low profile.’ That strange phenomenon was no figment of the imagination. The innermost core of all large computer systems dated

Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

by Diane Coyle · 11 Oct 2021 · 305pp · 75,697 words

dynamics. One example of how non-intuitive non-linear phenomena can be is a surprising recent resurgence of the debate about the Y2K phenomenon, or Millennium Bug. As the year 2000 approached, it dawned on the computer community that—to save on memory space—dates had generally been encoded as only the

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A History of Modern Britain

by Andrew Marr · 2 Jul 2009 · 872pp · 259,208 words

tiny numbers of people at first. It was a time of immense optimism, despite warnings that the whole digital world would collapse because of the ‘millennium bug’ – the alleged inability of computers to deal with the last two digits in ‘2000’, which was taken very seriously at the time. In fact, the