What the year 2000 problem may do to the stock market and the economy.
The Year 2000 (Y2K) computer problem and a number of related factors may prompt a global economic decline. The Y2K problem refers to the decades-old practice in computer programs of assuming a year's first two digits are “19” and using only the last two digits to denote the year. This means that t...
| Publicado en: | Futurist Vol. 32; no. 6; pp. 16 - 22 |
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World Future Society
August/September 1998
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