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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