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Y2K -- The Millennium Bug
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The 20th Century's most perplexing, and potentially most-disastrous, dilemma, will strike pricisely as it's last year -- 2000 -- begins. Will it be the proverbial "bump in the road?" Or TEOTWAWKI... "The end of the world as we know it?" Or some degree of disruption lying somewhere in between those incomprehensively widely-separated points? No one knows. But there are LOTS of educated guesses, based on many demonstrable and provable facts. These books are hand-picked by Xanadu to provide you with an excellent cross-section of the prevailing opinions.
Y2K - It's Not Too Late: Complete Preparedness Guide
Book Description --
"Y2K - It's Not Too Late" is the most comprehensive Y2K personal preparedness guide on the market, covering all steps of Y2K preparation in detail. The book explores options for short, mid, and long-term disruptions to power, water, telecommunications, the food supply, transportation, medical services, banking and finances, and more. If you're ready to make serious Y2K preparations, this book tells you exactly how to do it.
The authors' 12+ years of preparedness experience is condensed in this one-stop shopping guide to Y2K readiness. They detail what supplies you need, how to use them, and where to get them most inexpensively. Toll-free numbers and websites for 180 suppliers are included, for quick and easy Y2K preparedness.
From the UK:
Y2K : It's Already Too Late
Westergaard Year 2000 Book Center, June 18, 1998 --
One of the first Y2K fiction books to hit the shelves, this John Grisham-like novel follows Y2K
entrepreneur Mark Solvang through his efforts to save his business, America, and the rest of the
world from the death grip of Y2K. This story really makes the threat of Y2K come alive, so give it to a skeptic.
Denver Post, Leyla Kokmen, June 22, 1998 --
With dizzying action...it carries you through a worldwide power outage, runs on banks, bloody raids
on suburban grocery stores, plane crashes, and
massacres in the streets of Los Angeles. The second
half of the book even takes a turn into international espionage.
Los Angeles Times, Karen Kaplan, July 6, 1998 --
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but that didn't stop Los Angeleno Jason Kelly from turning a
real-life technology nightmare into a novel. Kelly's "Y2K -- It's Already Too Late" -- apparently the
first novel inspired by the year 2000 computer glitch -- envisions massive failures of banks, phones and power plants that ultimately make the U.S. vulnerable to an attack by the Chinese military. The country's hopes rest with one company, Solvang Solutions, which is able to repair Y2K problems because it has its own diesel electricity and a private satellite network. "Jason Kelly's novel is based on evidence from congressional testimony, military documents and reports from computer experts," according to the book jacket. "It is a chilling look at what lies just around the corner." We'll see.
From the UK:
What Will Become of Us? : Counting Down to Y2K
Review:
Book Description --
A compilation of evidence and documentation on the potential threat of the Y2K computer crisis.
Officially predicts a minimum six year economic collapse and lists resources that help readers prepare for rural and agrarian lifestyles.
From the UK:
The Millennium Bug: How to Survive the Coming Chaos
Amazon.com, David Wall --
This account outlines an ominous view of how computer systems will be able to deal with the year
2000 problem. Power grids go dark, 911 call centers descend into chaos, Visa cards die, and the
industrialized world is reduced to hunting and gathering in Hyatt's millennium nightmare.
With lots of quotes popping out from the pages and plenty of bulleted lists, The Millennium Bug is written in typical manager-book style. It's heavy with case studies, news items, and endnote references to the author's sources. Hyatt's purpose is to alert technology decision-makers to a plausible worst-case Y2K scenario and to motivate them to do something about it. The author presents a range of possible developments, from mere annoyance with consumer services to widespread starvation as a result of infrastructure breakdown. Hyatt also foresees a plague of lawsuits filed by shareholders, the families of deceased patients, and swarms of other people harmed by Y2K failures.
Hyatt's advice: move to a small town with a volunteer fire department, stockpile food, secure access to a reliable source of fresh water, and buy a gun and ammunition for fending off looters. The winter of 1999-2000 will be a hard one, Hyatt predicts, and the crisis may last a long time indeed -- have reading material on hand.
From the UK:
Time Bomb 2000: What the Year 2000 Computer Crisis Means to You!
Amazon.com --
Writings on the year 2000 (Y2K) problem, or the "millennium bug" as some would have it, have been limited to highly technical analyses of specific problems and their solutions. Very little attention has been paid to how the Y2K problem will affect the lives of average people and everyday systems, even though many prognosticators believe this is where the problem will have the largest impact. In Time Bomb 2000: What the Year 2000 Computer Crisis Means to You, Edward and Jennifer Yourdon do just that by presenting a collection of scenarios ranging from the best we can hope for to the worst cases. Each chapter investigates a different area of computing and the possible effects of this disaster on each. From home PCs to world financial networks, the Yourdons explore a variety of "domino effects" that January 1, 2000, could trigger and the necessary time, effort, and cost to fix the aftermath. The impacts on real life could be anywhere between annoying and catastrophic, and the authors examine each extreme. Each chapter contains "fallback advice," describing the amount of time required to repair these systems. (The authors liken Y2K to a hurricane--it only lasts a day, but requires a year of cleanup.)
Although the Yourdons insist that their overall view is optimistic, it's hard not to feel doomed when reading some of the worst-case scenarios brought on by the year 2000 problem. While Time Bomb 2000 is meant to be an alert, it's not time to start stockpiling canned goods yet, and we can probably still party like it's 1999 right on schedule. However, we should remain extremely mindful of what may await us the next morning.
From the UK:
Survival Guide for the Year 2000 Problem : How to Save Yourself from the Most Deadly Screw-Up in History
From the Author -- This book was written because The Y2K Problem scares me to death and I don't think enough is being done to prepare for it. The purpose of the book is to help the reader make those critical preparations.
Here are the most important things I want you to know when you have finished; A Survival Guide for The Year 2000 Problem:
1. How to protect your financial assets from Y2K related problems.
2. How to safeguard your critical, private information from Y2K losses and contamination.
3. How to protect yourself against the physical dangers caused by the Y2K Crisis.
4. How to influence decision makers to take action on Y2K.
From the UK:
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