I'm hoping that I am over reacting, but I would rather look foolish than endanger my life by not taking Y2K seriously. I have saved several thousands through the years. I think it could potentially put a lot of people in danger, for instance in hospitals, patients who require computerized equipment for life support. And the fact that the Pentagon hasn't got it together with the computerized bombing systems is very disturbing. So I believe that those should be our immediate priorities.
Computers are a great tool for efficiency, until they break down.
We need to remember how to live without them and respect their limitations. There could be a great lesson to be learned here, albeit a costly one. Howard J. I have set my computers to the year 2000 and everything seems to work, even an old IBM PC2. It probably needed replacing anyhow. My main worry is what all the people who are working on it will do after everything is fixed.