The Hare Krishnas' still will be there. People still can come to the Plaza of the Americas for lunch, Y2come what may. It is only logical for people to question and fear the unknown. Trying to come up with answers to an unforeseeable future and panicking about the gloom and doom that may or may not happen, is potentially dangerous. He says if it was not the computers, people would use something else as their reasoning for the world ending, such as world famine, depletion of the ozone layer and even the European money system changing to a single currency.
People are willing to grab onto anything to back up their prediction of doom.