The chaos isn't in the machines, it's in us. Whether the Y2K phenomenon will be remembered for disasters or mere snafus, no one could have invented a more perfect metaphor for our passage into the year 2000.
Computers define our epoch.
That's really the Millennium. It can make you embarrassed, even ashamed, to be a human being. And that collective weight of individually unadmitted shame is the Millennium. There is no school of thought that I know of that addresses the individual's deep shame over our collective state. An assumption that is, itself, madness.