Actually, I think that one of the best reasons to celebrate the new millennium, will be the fact that we won't have to hear any more doomsday scenarios about how all technology will stop working when the clocks hit January 1, 2000. It will still play and record, I assume, but the days of the week will be messed up unless I choose a year in which the days of each month are aligned the same as 2000 and beyond. It's the problems we're not expecting that I fear most.
Viruses can spread far and wide if they are given enough time to do so.
No, while there will be a few glitches, I don't think that it is the machines that we need to be worried about. It's people that concern me. Now, I'm no terrorist, but if I were, I'd have been working on a plan for 2000 a long time ago. We probably don't have much to be concerned about here in little old Wausau, but it's not only terrorist that want to bring in the new millennium with a bang. I read each year about people getting hit by stray gunfire from stupid people using guns as noisemakers.