this the year that shopping comes of age on the internet. this was a time that allowed you to make choices as a consumer without gatekeepers choosing things for you. you could decide, i want that, and you d get it. if you don t live in a big city, you can still get big-city stuff. the worldwide computer network called the internet has inspired more movies than any big deal, technological fad since, oh, the cb radio boom of the 1970s. the internet itself, however, is definitely exploding. it hit, and within like two years, it s become so powerful. we re sitting on the most perfect beach in the world and all we can think about is where can i hook up my modem? in 1999, we are culturally, socially, financially quite dependent on the internet. in washington today a special senate committee is preparing to release a fairly alarming report on the y2k millennium computer problem. they call it one of the most serious and potentially devastating events the nation
millennium computer problem. they call it one of the most serious and potentially devastating events the nation has ever encountered. the brains of most computers, the chips that do the thinking, have tiny, built in clocks. many register the year with only the last two digits, assuming the first two are always 19. the problem was not the computer would think that it 1800. the problem was, it wouldn t know what to do. it would just break down and go, can t process this. it could trigger widespread computer failures, blackouts, and breakdowns of everything from home appliances to the global financial system. if we left things as they are right now, the military would effectively shut down. the pentagon will spend at least $4 billion to diffuse the millennium bomb. pentagon officials are confident they ll do it. but critics claim they started too late, and those thousands of fixes won t be done in time. many states have not yet updated their computers that run programs, such a
consumer without gatekeepers choosing things for you. you could decide, i want that, and you d get it. if you don t live in a big city, you can still get big city stuff. the worldwide computer network called the internet has inspired more movies than any big deal, technological fad since, oh, the cb radio boom of the 1970s. the internet itself, however, is definitely exploding. it hit, and within like two years, it s become so powerful. we re sitting on the most perfect beach in the world and all we can think about is where can i hook up my modem? in 1999, we are culturally, socially, financially quite dependent on the internet. in washington today a special senate committee is preparing to release a fairly alarming report on the y2k millennium computer problem. they call it one of the most serious and potentially devastating events the nation has ever encountered. the brains of most computers,
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