After
It’s easy to joke about the whole millennium-bug thing. About how some people predicted it’d be the end of the world as we know it, and how others predicted – were adamant, in fact – that technology would be so screwed up by it that we’d all have to resort to pencils and papers and good-old-fashioned numeracy (I for one am glad that didn’t happen…very glad, in fact, as the very idea of it makes me feel quite sick…). But the truth is that when the new millennium came, it brought with it an air of seriousness that still hasn’t died down.
The following things happened:
1) Airport security increased.
2) People panicked about terrorism.
3) The world went terrorism-mad, looking to blame them for anything and everything, from the economic climate to why teenagers were misbehaving.
4) And much more…
Now, of course this didn’t happen overnight, and it didn’t happen exactly when the new millennium came, but make no mistake: it happened. Somehow, due to a series of strange facts and events, things would never be the same again.
Then again, there were lots of new cool things about the new millennium, and it’d be wrong to forget those. One thing was that we all stopped worrying about our computers stopping working, and there was a general feeling of breathing out and relaxing, knowing it’d be a long time until the next millennium scare.
Personally, I work with someone who’s obsessed with fine-tuning time management software , so I’m glad nothing happened to the computers…he’d have been a nightmare!
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