Links
Background
How Stuff Works
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/y2k.htm
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y2k
News Coverage
New York Times Y2K coverage
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/millennium-index.html
David Eddy and the etymology of "Y2K"
http://slate.msn.com/id/1004203/
Government
Press Briefing by John Koskinen, Chair of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion - July 14, 1998
http://www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/legacy/
071498-press-briefing-by-john-koskinen-on-y2k-conversion.htm
U.S. Senate Y2K Special Committee Web site
http://www.senate.gov/~y2k/
Y2K Culture
EM Forster "The Machine Stops"
http://emforster.de/hypertext/template.php3?t=tms
Jim's Big Ego - "Y2K-Hooray" song
http://www.bigego.com/egog/staticpages/index.php?page=y2khooray
Y2K cookbook
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/
-/096693170X/102-9118083-5282562?v=glance
Y2K Culture by Declan McCullagh
http://mccullagh.org/y2kculture/
People
Paul Saffo
http://www.saffo.org/
Institute for the Future in Menlo Park
http://www.iftf.org/
Suhas Patil, chairman emeritus of Cirrus Logic
http://www.cirrus.com/en/about/executives/bios/E12.html
AnnaLee Saxenian, dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~anno/
Rafiq Dossani, senior research scholar at Stanford University
http://siis.stanford.edu/people/2062/
"Y2K38"
The 2038 problem
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question75.htm
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