Most companies had IT staff on site that weekend. With that much attention, small sparks could be blown out before they turned into large bonfires. It would be easy to say that we must have figured out by now that we have to assume that design decisions made today will last longer and affect more things than we anticipate. Forevermore, software and hardware manufacturers will plan ahead. In the meantime, it's time for us to go out on a limb and make predictions about the upcoming year.
Predictions are always risky.
If you are right, no one remembers. If you're wrong, no one forgets. So here goes. Have a great new year, new decade, new century and new millennium. To Infinity and Beyond.