The Y2K issue might have surprisingly elegant solutions. First, the proposed Year Zero. An impossible gigantic job indeed. A screen would pop up where an appropriate process or directive can be selected. In this way, the pioneering Apple company would get finally a well deserved role for their visionary way of designing and thinking differently.
Fear never is a good guiding force.
But fear for the Millennium 'problem' made available huge sums of money as we experience at this moment. One day, reflecting on this, i came to think that it was eventually the divine force itself who wanted it this way, for yet unknown reasons. By focussing on this kind of thinking, i suddenly could grasp a possible explanation. Some preliminary reflections lead to the later conclusion. One of the main influence factors supposedly is the local climate.