Much of what you heard was truly alarming, yet you also heard it was a non-issue. With the wisdom that comes from Sunday morning quarterbacking, let's see who was right on this raging debate. All of the answers aren't in yet, and won't be until later in the year.
Some answers are of course, and for the most part, the results are reassuring.
And so far, we've not heard of any chemical plant explosions, hospital patients dying, or oil drilling disasters. We have had many failures, and some of them were potentially life threatening or otherwise disruptive. Failures due to the Year 2000 date issue are happening daily well into the first quarter of 2000, and failures are expected to continue to happen for many more months. Let's examine why it appears that many of us experts were so far off in our predictions. One of the perplexing problems we had in predicting events is that the Year 2000 issue covered such a broad spectrum of events and scientific disciplines.