Y2K -- It's Already Too Late
by Jason Kelly

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Summary: 5 Stars

Jason Kelly has done a remarkable job of assembling and incorporating the relevant elements of the year 2000 problem into a solid, suspenseful and plausible view of life around the time of the new year in 2000 AD. His book offers a view of Y2K that may well hold our epitaph as a modern global society and serves as a cogent warning for people to look into the matter.

It seems inconceivable that a simple presumption in programming computers and embedded chip devices, now entrenched into so many of our modern society's products, could offer the seeds of our own demise. So much so, that many first reactions to Y2K are to diminish or discount the problem as trivial or worse, deny that a problem exists at all. It exists. Large companies and governments have spend billions on the problem to date and will continue to spend billions more to negate the effects of the millennium bug.

I fear that we will not have adequate knowledge worker resources to place on this problem because of its tremendous scope. For companies who choose a fix on failure strategy, through misunderstanding of the matter there will be devastating consequences.

Devastating? Consider this. Just in time (JIT) manufacturing has become the standard for making many of the products produced globally. JIT presumes predictable product demand and ability for all component parts of a product to come together to form the product as the parts are needed. When parts cannot be provided in time, product production schedules will collapse. Examine what a localized strike of a parts supplier does to a single manufacturer's ability to produce product. Extend that to all manufacturers as well as consuming companies who require those manufactured goods. It quickly becomes evident that, once started, the cascading ! domino effect will be difficult to reverse. Devastating.

Jason Kelly has put the essence of the problem into a strong technology thriller. I read the book in a single sitting; I simply could not put it down.

I recommend that you buy, read and consider the serious implications presented in the book.

The Year 2000 bug? It's a computer problem, right? Somebody will fix it... Won't they?

Jason Kelly's Y2K -- Its Already Too Late.

After all, it's just a novel, a work of fiction... Isn't it?

Summary of Y2K -- It's Already Too Late

For computer geeks, X-Files devotees, and Tom Clancy readers alike, Y2K is one of those books that's hard to put down once you start reading it. While many argue that the Y2K bug is mostly hype, this book makes it impossible not to wonder what's going to happen when the ball drops on December 31, 1999. --Michael A. Mariani

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