Send us your Feedback For our privacy policy, click here . For our user agree- ment, click here . The glitches were caused not by computers failing to recognize the year 2000, but by software installed to fix the computer glitch. Yes, Y2K does present a modern challenge, but it's starting to look as though anything that goes awry over the next 18 months, from bank statements to box scores, is going to be blamed on computers. But the incident is a reminder of our coming date with history.
Computers affect nearly every aspect of Western life.
A Space Odyssey. Y2K poses questions no one can adequately answer. For all the tart opinion that appears on this page, no one here pretends to have the answers to this one. Like most folks, we're looking for clues. The mystics of another place or an earlier time would toss the bones, read the stars, sacrifice a goat.