Certainly not apocalyptic or cataclysmic expectations from the source of the crisis. I tend to agree with the Pope on this one. The year 2000 should be a time of celebration, not panic. On an e-mail list I belong to, someone has proposed a religious catch phrase which serves as an antidote to all the Y2K hysteria. The Christian response can be expressed as Y2J - Year 2000 Jubilee.
Celebration is the focus, rather than fear.
This turning of the millennium will be the first truly global mass celebration. The reason we have such concern about the millennium is a product of two major factors, which are intertwined. The first is our fear of technology. The second reason the global celebration is even possible is because of our modern concept of time, which is the product of our technology. Kingwell says this about the turning of the last millennium.