I thought that we were right about Y2K, people spent a lot of time preparing for it, and their hard work saved us all. Is that wrong? (I understand if you just link to somewhere else and don’t clutter up your thread any further with this digression.)
According to some as summarized by wikipedia, there’s not all that much evidence that people who didn’t prepare were bitten by it, or that fixing ahead of time was cheaper / better than fix-on-failure.
I mean Y2K in the sense of lots of fretting about something that turns out not to happen, whether because of significant preparation or from just being wrong about the urgency.
I realize it doesn’t seem likely, but in the spirit of humility before humanity’s collective ignorance, how might we know we were wrong? Like, clearly nobody’s expecting US cases to suddenly level off and then disappear, but what if that happens anyway? At what point would we say we were just totally wrong?
I thought that we were right about Y2K, people spent a lot of time preparing for it, and their hard work saved us all. Is that wrong? (I understand if you just link to somewhere else and don’t clutter up your thread any further with this digression.)
According to some as summarized by wikipedia, there’s not all that much evidence that people who didn’t prepare were bitten by it, or that fixing ahead of time was cheaper / better than fix-on-failure.
I mean Y2K in the sense of lots of fretting about something that turns out not to happen, whether because of significant preparation or from just being wrong about the urgency.
I realize it doesn’t seem likely, but in the spirit of humility before humanity’s collective ignorance, how might we know we were wrong? Like, clearly nobody’s expecting US cases to suddenly level off and then disappear, but what if that happens anyway? At what point would we say we were just totally wrong?