Some believe that simple inconveniences like power outages are minor compared to the other things that may ripple across the planet in this age of computers. ATM's will shut down. Cars will not start. Insurance policies will be canceled. The electric company will send you a bill stating your account is 49 years past due.
Computers reach into our everyday lives more than can be imagined.
Almost every appliance or piece of equipment on which we rely to do our jobs or make our lives easier contains a microchip of some kind. It's not just your home computer or the equipment on your desk at the office that can be affected. Any entity which relies on record-keeping, like banks, hospitals, airlines, and colleges and universities, must address this problem. I thought computers were supposed to revolutionize our lives and make them easier. The Y2K problem stems from what was considered to be a brilliant method of computer programming years ago.