What Effect will the Millennium Bug have on Society?
People talk about the Millennium Bug, but few actually know what it is and how big an effect is could have. Virtually everything is our society is vulnerable, from water and electricity to our phone bills and savings accounts. The Millennium Bug is a design fault dating back to the early days of computers and the way they store time and date. When you turn on your computer it knows the time and date thanks to …showed first 85 words of 718 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 718 total…of dollars world wide for no reason or our computers could fail and we could suffer a financial and life threatening break down. No one will know the bugs full power till January 1st 2000. We shouldn't worry just yet because people such as Bill Gates are working on a solution a this very moment. Even though we have approximately 295 days till the bug goes off we shouldn't take it for granted, because we don't fully understand it and that's when things can really go wrong.
