Surviving the Year 2000 Computer Crash: It's Too Late to Fix All the Software!

by David W. Brown

"I don't need to worry, I never use computers!" Wrong! Your watch, your car, your VCR and TV, all have computers hidden inside them. Every time you go to your bank, use a bank machine, or buy something in a store, you use computers. Computers put the food on supermarket shelves, put gasoline in your car, and print your paycheck. They sort the mail and run your cell phone, fly the planes and run the trains. Around the world, there are 25 Billion computer chips built into the products we buy and use every day. Hospitals, police, fire departments, electricity, and every other system in our society all depend on computers to keep things running. What would happen if they stopped working, All at the Same Time? Even a small number of errors and failures could seriously hurt our neatly ordered society. Or we might have chaos like we've never seen. David Brown explains it all in his now-classic style of simple, clear language. Without using computer jargon, he explains why things will go wrong. He shows how the so-called "Millennium Bug" will affect everyone on the face of this planet, whether or not they've ever seen or used a computer. You'll discover what will happen, what's likely to happen, and what might happen but probably won't. Then you'll learn what you should be doing now to protect yourself, your family, your property and your money, in case the worst should happen." This is the book for everybody, the book that will make a difference to your life in the new Millennium. It could even save your life.

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Published November 18, 1998