Y2K and beyond The press has latched onto the Year 2000 problem with the tenacity of a badger. While there is some good involved in computer problems being part of the mainstream news it can lead to hype, paranoia and hyperbole. Surely, there will be many problems associated with the Year 2000, but as a technology worker, you should be thinking beyond this problem, as well. Every computer system under your control should be examined with an eye toward the future. It is issues such as these that you will need to be addressed year after year.
American business is notorious for only thinking as far ahead as the next quarter.
You can give yourself a tremendous advantage by breaking out of this mold. You will still have to deal with less forward-looking people, but you will have an added advantage. Get involved In almost every company, technology workers are excluded from project groups, regardless of how useful their input and insight might be. This often leads to situations where projects come close to failure because of previously unknown issues that could have been addressed by technical staff. Worse still, technology workers are then saddled with the support and training for a project that could have been better if only they had been includedat the starts.