Y2K conversion, contingency planning, embedded chips and possible litigation. Our panel of experts discusses Y2K. Answers have been edited for length.
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Experts have warned for years that Y2K conversion should be completed by December so that system testing can occur during 1999. Some futurists are predicting an economic downturn, even a recession, as the result of Y2K failures and ensuing litigation for damages. Md. Debra Clark Jones is director of North Carolina's Statewide Year 2000 Program Management Office. John A. Koskinen is an assistant to President Clinton and chair of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion. James G. Natoli is director of State Operations and chair of the Governor's Office for Technology in New York.