The decade we didn't see coming
By Joel Achenbach
The decade began so swimmingly. No Y2K bug, no terrorism, nothing but lots of fireworks as the planet turned and, time zone by time zone, all the zeroes replaced the nines.
The decade we didn't see coming
By Joel Achenbach
The decade began so swimmingly. No Y2K bug, no terrorism, nothing but lots of fireworks as the planet turned and, time zone by time zone, all the zeroes replaced the nines.
1 comment:
Doesn't Y2K make you stop and think about the crisis du jour? Remember the hole in the ozone layer that would take 50 years to recover and only if we acted NOW!!? Gee, it's not much of a news story anymore except that scientists now believe maybe the ozone hole recovery could lead to further warming. Oh, well unintended consequences and something about fools rushing places comes to mind every time I hear Greenpeace screaming about another environmental crisis. Amazon deforestation, old growth depleation, blah blah blah. A little healthy skepticism and a little use of memory can be very useful.
As for Y2K, I made a mint on it, just as I suspect Al Gore is doing with global warming, only a few orders of magnitude larger than I.
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