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There is concern that our society might fail at or near the turn of the century. Everything and anything today depends on computerized interactions. The scariest scenarios involve the North American power grid. This grid virtually controls all the complex systems that deliver power to every home, office, and factory in the U.S. Among these are millions of interdependent components. These consist of transformers, power plants, transmission lines, and substations. The grid became too …

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…made. Everything public works and government agencies have been developing and testing Y2K counter softwares. We must keep in mind that it is he human mind that created these computers and it will be the human minds that will fix this problem. And like any other problem, it will be fixed. We are smarter today then we were 20 years ago. So many new technological advances have been developed to counter the Y2K bug.