The bad news is, they expect you, Bill Gates, to deliver it. Now you and I know this is just plain silly. Nobody is going to come up with a silver bullet that will eliminate this problem overnight. The thing is, though, while they won't believe me when I say it's silly, they would believe you. Each day, reporters interview me about the Year 2000 problem.
Journalists are a reasonably smart bunch of people.
They're certainly no less educated or computer savvy than the average citizen. Yet about eight out of 10 of these reporters insist we're making too much of this problem. They insist that someone will come up with a solution. And the first person they mention is you. They leave, still convinced we're making too much of it and that you are going to ride in on that white horse and save the day.