We’re Finally Learning the Lesson of Y2K — and It’s Too Late

It’s time to question our faith in the machine

Colin Horgan
9 min readDec 5, 2018

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“In a welcome anticlimax to two years of dire warnings, the new millennium arrived over the weekend without a computer-driven meltdown of the globe’s electronic infrastructure.” So began a New York Times editorial on January 3, 2000, reflecting a collective sigh of relief that…

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