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As public awareness of the Y2000 problem increases, concern about its possible effects declines. According to USA Today/Gallup polls conducted in December 1998 and March 1999, 21% of the US population now expects major problems to result from Y2000; 38% expressed similar concerns in December. Curiously, the same two polls also show a trend toward a greater awareness of the problem. In December, 39% reported that they had seen, read, or heard "a great deal" about Y2000; 56% reported the same level of exposure in March.


Y2000 EUPHORIA MAY DERAIL CONTINGENCY PLANNING 8 June 1999 by Cutter Consortium

Cutter Consortium's Chairman and Director of its Y2000 Advisory Service, Ed Yourdon, has recently raised a red flag in the midst of the flurry of optimistic Y2000 announcements:

IT practitioners have been preoccupied for the last several years fixing what the media refers to as the Y2K bug, which was not a bug at all (remember what a gigabyte of DASD cost in 1972? Try $6 million!). While we are merrily "IV and V-ing" code and creating contingency plans, some interesting things are going on that will make the years after the millennium very interesting.