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Computers affect more aspects of society than most people realize.
Over the last 15 to 20 years, computer systems have become fully integrated into our society. Computerized systems have been widely adopted by the construction industry due to the great number of benefits they offer in the efficiency of in-house operations as well as communicating information to supporting companies and clients. Over time, we have seen the industry become more and more dependent upon computers running software applications such as scheduling, estimating, accounting and design. It appears that the Year 2000 may pose a significant problem for these software applications as well as the computers on which they operate. This is one case where an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.