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If our civilization,
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the lights go off
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and the lights never come back on,
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for all intents and purposes,
it's going back to dust,
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we will turn it back
into the Stone Age eventually.
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Um...
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Because without that power
this lifestyle stops.
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And you will be back working with clay.
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You will be back dealing
with one of these.
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I happen to be on a year 2000 project
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for the company that I work for
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in making sure that their systems
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are going to make it
across the millennium.
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We just can't get it all and so...
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And so you're here?
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Yeah.
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Computer buffs
have known about it for years,
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but the rest of us,
well, we're just finding out
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about a glitch you might say
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in the way most computers are programmed.
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There could be a meltdown
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when we cross from the year 1999
into 2000.
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And even if you don't own a computer,
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this is going to affect you in a big way.
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I feel like it could be the beginning
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of the end of the world.
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I feel like our days could be numbered.
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I feel like nuclear bombs could go off,
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nuclear plants could melt down,
we could suffer famine.
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And I don't wanna go through this alone.
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Y2K.
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How can we prepare individually?
How can we work together?
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And how can we, humankind, utilize Y2K
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as an opportunity to look at ourselves,
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to analyze where we've been,
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and to adjust our sights for the future.
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Watch your feet, watch your feet,
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watch the cable.
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Thank you, both.
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Thank you.
-Now, you go on up, go on up.
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And, uh...
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Yeah. That's okay.
Yeah. This is good.
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This is good.
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Today in California
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we are installing six million feet...
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Six million feet
of computer cables and plugs.
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We are putting the future
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at the fingertips of your children.
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All of you know that the information
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and technology explosion
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will offer to you
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and to the young people of the future,
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more opportunities and challenges
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than any generations
of Americans has ever seen.
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Good morning, Mr. President.
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Come down, you can see it
on the camera there.
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Good morning,
Mr. Vice President.
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Morning, Ron.
-Hey, Mr. Secretary.
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Oh, hold on.
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So now you can say it.
-Good morning, Ron.
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How's it going there, Ron?
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We gotta wait for them to send back audio.
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Takes a few seconds here.
Come on.
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It's great here. We're at
Freeport Elementary School.
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We got a fully wired school
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hooked into the information superhighway
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just like you, Mr. President,
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the vice president promised to be.
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You know, the vice president and I...
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have communications like this, uh,
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at the Pentagon
with all of our military leaders
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around the world.
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I'm really glad to see that you've got
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this kind of communication for education.
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If more people can communicate
directly like this
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and look at each other face to face,
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that will, I think, reduce the need
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for military confrontation.
I think it'll bring
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people together all over the world.
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And it's really exciting to see
us here looking at you
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and have this conversation.
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I hope you all are as excited
about it as we are.
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Everybody's excited here,
Mr. President.
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Why don't we give a big cheer
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and let's show him
how excited we are, all right?
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I like this, does it...
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Top of the range.
-Does it? Let's see.
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Car cord.
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I can take it in the car!
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Three-inch screen.
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I like this one, hun.
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It can do batteries too.
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You mean you can take a movie
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and they'll put it on the hard drive
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and you can show it back.
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Mm-hmm. Yeah.
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-Oh, c'mon.
-EMPLOYEE Yeah, yeah.
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There it is right here.
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You guys, Bill, cut it all out.
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You cut it.
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We humans are tool builders
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and we can fashion tools that amplify
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these inherent abilities that we have
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to spectacular magnitudes.
And so for me,
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a computer has always been
a bicycle of the mind.
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Something that takes us far beyond
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our inherent abilities.
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Microsoft will be
the most powerful company
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in the 21st century.
Do you see that?
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No, I really don't.
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Uh, we're a company that makes tools.
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But so many people
are dependent on those tools.
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No, they're not dependent on us.
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Once they have those things...
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...they can use them
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and do whatever they choose.
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I think a millennia from now
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people are gonna look back and say,
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"Wow, the late 20th century
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was really a great time
to be alive on this planet."
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Now that I've gone on the internet,
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I'd rather be on my computer
than doing just about anything.
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Any human being can say
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whatever he or she wants
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and nobody can shut them up.
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It means that all of those
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wonderful things that have been gelling
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in human consciousness all this time,
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that were too far out on the fringes,
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suddenly get a chance
to be part of the mix.
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And I think that's a good thing.
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I think it's no accident
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that the tremendous speed
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that we're seeing and development
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of this new cyber culture
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which is evolving right
in front of our eyes,
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right around this millennium time.
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Why is that?
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It's not happening by accident.
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It's the actual millennium itself
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making this happen.
It's like an energy.
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It's like a magnet
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that the closer you get to it
the more it speeds up.
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It's almost like a black hole.
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So as you hit it right on the year 2000,
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the culture is moving
at almost maximum speed.
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I want to get online.
I need a computer!
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As ironies go, add this to the list.
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Computers that can handle
millions of numbers a minute
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may spend years stymied by a single one,
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the date of the year 2000.
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It's a problem called the Millennium Bug
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and it will be biting soon.
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We can't see the electronic calendar
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inside a computer, but if we could,
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it would look something like this.
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The first two digits of the year, the 19,
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are assumed by the computer,
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chiseled in stone as far
as its memory is concerned.
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To save precious storage space,
only the last two digits change.
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So when the year 1999 ends,
virtually all computer calendars
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are going to flip over to the next year,
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which the computers will read as 1900.
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Our systems are broken.
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And they're going to fall asunder
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when you start entering into them,
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data from the 21st century.
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There is no debate about that anymore.
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Peter de Jager calls himself
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a computer age Paul Revere,
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trotting all over the globe
to warn companies
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and governments
that "the zeros are coming,
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the zeros are coming."
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We won't be in a situation,
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will we or will we,
where cities virtually grind
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to a halt on that January 1?
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If we don't fix the programs,
that's what happens.
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Now you're asking me
to predict the future.
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If everybody listens to us,
we'll bypass this.
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If everybody starts working on it,
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focuses all their energies,
we will bypass it.
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What you have just communicated to me
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is that half this room has no better
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than a 50 percent chance
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of delivering this project on time.
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Do you understand that?
Do you realize that?
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In 1977, I started
as an operator with IBM.
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First day on the job,
I noticed that our systems
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were using two-digit years.
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When I brought it up to management,
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management said, "Don't worry about it,
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it isn't gonna happen
for another 23 years, so relax."
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I did.
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In 1989,
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I saw a show,
Connections with James Burke.
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And the first show was about how in 1965
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the entire Skyline went black
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because of one single electrical switch.
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It can't happen here, well it did.
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And the question asked
by 25 million people
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living in the affected area
of 80,000 square miles
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was simply, how could it happen?
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And no one had an immediate answer.
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It was that single device failing,
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causing this huge effect.
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That made me realize
that the year 2000 problem,
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these date calculations
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in every one of these organizations,
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would have a similar impact.
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So if we all know there's
gonna be this giant problem
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and exactly when it's going to happen,
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why on earth can't we fix it?
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-Here's ABC's Gina Smith.
-Just how big is the problem?
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Well, imagine someone told you
you had to find and replace
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every bolt in the Brooklyn Bridge.
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That's daunting, but doable.
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Now imagine you have to find...
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...and replace every bolt
in every bridge in the world,
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and you only have 21 months to do it.
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Computers talk to one another,
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information is transferred
from one system to another.
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And if one computer doesn't understand
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the change of date,
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then other computers are affected by that.
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What Y2K is about really is
the pervasiveness
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of computer technology,
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information processing technology,
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in our everyday lives.
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And personal computers
are really the least of it.
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It's the big fragile systems,
the brittle systems
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that are most vulnerable.
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Things like power,
electric communications,
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air traffic control, banking.
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These are the things
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that we don't think about
because they're invisible.
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They're transparent
in our daily interactions.
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But they are in fact computer systems.
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It's not just the computer systems
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that are interconnected.
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It's the economies of the countries
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and the individual businesses
that are interconnected.
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You can have a company like General Motors
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that has been working very,
very hard on this issue,
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but they're dependent upon
tiers of suppliers.
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And if you can't get the widget
that goes into the seat
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that goes into the car,
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their assembly line is gonna stop.
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It's almost like a nightmare.
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Uh, literally science fiction.
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Computers which control
defense missile systems.
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Computers which control
public transportation systems
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are at risk for failure.
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But this is much worse than we thought
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because billions
of computer chips out there
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have a time sequence
as part of their programs.
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Imagine how many things
are now run with computer chips
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and are connected
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to so many other things
run by computer chips.
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It seems unbelievable,
but it's only 535 days from now.
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At the stroke of midnight,
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when we will usher in a new year,
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a new century, a new millennium.
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It is a complex test that requires us all
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to work together.
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Every government agency, every university,
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every hospital,
every business large and small,
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with millions of hours needed
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to rewrite billions of lines of code
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and hundreds of thousands
of interdependent organizations.
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This is clearly one of the most
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complex management challenges in history.
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More than anything else,
the year 2000 problem
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has revealed how interconnected
and interdependent
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we have become.
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Earlier this year,
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the president established
the President's Council
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on the Year 2000 Conversion
and appointed John Koskinen
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to head up this effort,
having been a part of the effort
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to persuade him to come back...
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...out of retirement
and take this on,
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I wanna really lay it on thick
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because he's really...
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He's done a great job.
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Why don't you stand up, John,
we appreciate what you're doing.
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We are at the White House.
We're here with John Koskinen.
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This is the apex of our trip.
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You've been known in papers
and articles as the Y2K czar.
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How do you react to that?
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Well, I'd say, in a way, I suppose,
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of focusing on responsibility.
But as I said,
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it's one of the world's
great bag holding jobs.
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If it all goes well, nobody will care.
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And if it doesn't go well, they'll say
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-what was the name of that guy?
-Who was that czar?
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Has to be a fair amount of
pressure, though, you must admit
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when the president says,
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"Okay, you're my guy
to do this."
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Not only is it getting
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the government itself up to speed,
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it's the nation...
how to inform the people.
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We're still a ways away
from the end of next year
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and we don't know how much work
is actually gonna get done.
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All you can say for sure right now
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is that there's potential
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for significant disruptions
around the world.
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But also there are a lot
of people working very hard
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to avoid that problem.
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Uh, so at this stage,
all you can do is make guesses
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or very broad-based estimates
about what might happen.
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Uh, but I think at this point,
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it's very difficult to know for sure.
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Four million gallons of raw sewage
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spilled out during a failed Y2K test.
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They were testing what would happen
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if the plant lost power
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once the calendar reads January 1st, 2000.
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Computer unexpectedly shut our input gate
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and didn't tell us that it did that,
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shut one of our input gates,
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and it backed up the sewer into the park.
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Regulatory reports reveal
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that early last month
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the Peach Bottom nuclear facility
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near York, Pennsylvania
experienced a serious glitch
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when operators tried to fix
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a Y2K problem.
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When workers advanced clocks
to the year 2000,
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both the primary and backup
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plant monitoring system
computers shut down
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for seven hours, resulting in a major loss
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of emergency assessment capability,
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according to the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission.
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I keep on hearing a lot of things
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that there's gonna be mass chaos
and confusion in the year 2000.
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Right now I'm just studying all the facts
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and just see what companies
are really prepared for.
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I just assumed in America,
we'll figure it out.
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I can't believe
that in this present day and age
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with all the modern technology
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that everything's gonna collapse.
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A lot of people are gonna panic
and stockpile things, not fly.
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I think it's all a hoax anyway.
343
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You think it's a hoax?
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I do. I think it was started
by computer programmers.
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They must be working on it, are they?
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This is the real frontline,
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programmers scouring computer codes.
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And to understand
exactly what they're doing,
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you have to be one.
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It'd be a D3M because there's hyphens.
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I've got to tell you
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I don't understand a word you said.
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But what you pick up immediately
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is that the process of fixing
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a single computer program
is tedious and time consuming.
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Every one is unique
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and you have to go through them
line by line
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to find and fix
and test potential problems.
359
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Well actually, I was gonna try
to get into something
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where you can actually
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see me doing something useful here.
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Let's see...
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This is a fairly straightforward case.
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Uh, it's a field in a program
just called YR for year.
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And the 99 means
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it's two numeric possible values.
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So these are the kinds of things
that the various tools
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that we're using help us find.
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Just about everything we do
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depends on knowing
the date something happened,
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the date someone was born,
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the date they got married,
the date they died,
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the date they became disabled,
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we have to worry about all those things.
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There it is.
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The whole business of the Millennium Bug
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is a bit odd, isn't it?
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We can put a tiny little machine
on Mars to roam around
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and we've got a problem
with a couple of digits.
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Doesn't make much sense, does it?
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I mean, who were the programming geniuses
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who decided that we only needed two digits
383
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instead of four.
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Programmers have been telling management
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right from the start,
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this will not work in the year 2000.
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And management said that is outside
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my six-year timeframe
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for financial analysis and, you know,
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reports to shareholders,
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so we're not going to worry about it.
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The kind of computer power
you can now get on a laptop
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used to require a system
that was so large it literally
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had to be housed in its own building.
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So, the sheer expense of computing
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began to really add up.
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That's when major businesses
and government institutions
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began finding ways to cut corners.
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And one of the most fateful
cost-cutting measures
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was to deliberately
401
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leave out the first two digits
of the year date.
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Using two digits rather than four
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made good economic sense.
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It was a choice, worldwide.
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Sort of like the original sin.
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If we dig still deeper,
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00:22:50,833 --> 00:22:52,950
beyond the technical explanations,
408
00:22:53,033 --> 00:22:56,033
we could probably start
with a name, Grace Hopper,
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00:22:56,266 --> 00:22:59,266
coiner of the term "bug."
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00:23:03,633 --> 00:23:04,917
I was very fortunate
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00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,883
the Navy ordered me
to the first big computer
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00:23:06,966 --> 00:23:08,783
in the United States, Mark One at Harvard.
413
00:23:08,866 --> 00:23:10,950
How did you know
so much about computers then?
414
00:23:11,033 --> 00:23:12,483
-I didn't.
-How did you...
415
00:23:12,566 --> 00:23:15,566
-It was the first one.
-Yeah.
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00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:25,500
We were building Mark Two
the summer of 1945.
417
00:23:25,733 --> 00:23:28,733
It was a hot summer in Cambridge
and Mark Two stopped.
418
00:23:29,566 --> 00:23:31,283
We finally located the failing relay.
419
00:23:31,366 --> 00:23:33,483
It was one of the big signal relays.
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And inside the relay,
421
00:23:35,333 --> 00:23:37,117
beaten to death by the relay contacts
422
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,683
was a moth about this big.
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00:23:39,766 --> 00:23:41,550
So the operator got a pair of tweezers
424
00:23:41,633 --> 00:23:44,283
and very carefully fished
the moth out of the relay.
425
00:23:44,366 --> 00:23:45,650
Put it in the logbook,
426
00:23:45,733 --> 00:23:47,483
put scotch tape over it.
427
00:23:47,566 --> 00:23:50,566
And below it he wrote,
"First actual bug found."
428
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,083
You wrote something somewhere.
429
00:23:54,166 --> 00:23:55,383
You don't do anything in the Navy
430
00:23:55,466 --> 00:23:56,683
without a piece of paper.
431
00:23:56,766 --> 00:23:59,083
Mm-hmm.
-They all come out of computers.
432
00:23:59,166 --> 00:24:00,750
Same thing's true with your big companies.
433
00:24:00,833 --> 00:24:03,050
If those computers stopped,
this whole country
434
00:24:03,133 --> 00:24:04,650
would come to a screeching halt.
435
00:24:04,733 --> 00:24:05,950
Mm-hmm.
436
00:24:06,033 --> 00:24:08,917
People are scared of computers,
just as I can remember.
437
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,517
There were people who were scared to death
438
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,650
of telephones.
439
00:24:12,733 --> 00:24:15,733
Wouldn't go near them.
440
00:24:16,666 --> 00:24:19,517
There were people who thought
gas light was safe,
441
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,117
but electric light wasn't very safe.
442
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,200
We've always gone through this
with every change.
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Fulfilling absolute decree
in casual simplicity.
444
00:24:50,333 --> 00:24:52,983
All of this is designed
to free men and women
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from the drudgery
and monotony of pushing paper.
446
00:24:59,733 --> 00:25:02,350
Certainly not a 1984-ish vision at all.
447
00:25:02,433 --> 00:25:04,250
Uh, it's just gonna be very gradual
448
00:25:04,333 --> 00:25:06,117
and very human and will seduce you
449
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,200
into learning how to use it.
450
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,117
In just two decades,
the speed of computers
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00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,200
has improved over 100 times.
452
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At the core of our society,
453
00:25:20,066 --> 00:25:23,066
a world of accelerating change,
irreversible change.
454
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For just as the Industrial Revolution
455
00:25:30,833 --> 00:25:33,417
replaced man's muscles
as an economic asset,
456
00:25:33,500 --> 00:25:34,883
so the computer threatens
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00:25:34,966 --> 00:25:37,966
to make valueless the menial mentality.
458
00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:43,017
By the year 2000,
459
00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:44,950
computers will invade our privacy,
460
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on a scale hardly imaginable.
They will be interconnected
461
00:25:48,733 --> 00:25:50,983
and unless prevented by new legislation,
462
00:25:51,066 --> 00:25:54,066
will be able to sell information.
463
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,083
Everybody knows what's happening
in every part of the world
464
00:25:58,166 --> 00:25:59,450
within seconds.
465
00:25:59,533 --> 00:26:02,533
And it's affecting
every part of our lives.
466
00:26:03,433 --> 00:26:04,817
It's something...
We can't get away from it.
467
00:26:04,900 --> 00:26:06,517
I think we will have to just...
468
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,017
I don't know, I don't know
what's gonna happen.
469
00:26:09,100 --> 00:26:12,100
It is, ironically,
that we're too well-informed,
470
00:26:13,100 --> 00:26:14,983
we know too much.
471
00:26:15,066 --> 00:26:16,817
We've lost forever,
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00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:19,900
the opportunity to live in innocence
473
00:26:20,033 --> 00:26:23,033
about how our society works,
or doesn't work.
474
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:27,950
Is it gonna bring us closer together
475
00:26:28,033 --> 00:26:29,750
or will it drive us further apart?
476
00:26:29,833 --> 00:26:32,550
It's gonna do both, ironically.
477
00:26:32,633 --> 00:26:34,617
It can bring the world closer together,
478
00:26:34,700 --> 00:26:37,700
but you can also use it
to avoid human contact.
479
00:26:40,266 --> 00:26:42,317
We have become very, very dependent
480
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,317
on computer technology.
481
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,683
We are going to be stress tested
482
00:26:46,766 --> 00:26:49,766
by the year 2000 problem.
483
00:27:32,066 --> 00:27:35,066
How could the omission
of two simple digits
484
00:27:35,333 --> 00:27:38,333
affect the destiny of all humankind?
485
00:27:38,833 --> 00:27:41,833
Y2K? What does it mean?
486
00:27:42,333 --> 00:27:45,333
How will it affect you,
your family, your community,
487
00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:48,017
your nation,
488
00:27:48,100 --> 00:27:51,100
our world?
489
00:27:51,933 --> 00:27:54,933
In a very real way,
we're all responsible for Y2K.
490
00:27:56,366 --> 00:27:59,017
And there's no one to blame,
morally or otherwise.
491
00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:01,750
We've all benefited from the technologies
492
00:28:01,833 --> 00:28:03,450
which have improved our lives.
493
00:28:03,533 --> 00:28:05,050
And we have therefore encouraged
494
00:28:05,133 --> 00:28:07,283
those same technologies to develop
495
00:28:07,366 --> 00:28:09,983
at ever more accelerated rates.
496
00:28:10,066 --> 00:28:13,066
And yes, perhaps we are now realizing
497
00:28:13,333 --> 00:28:15,550
that we've taken them a bit for granted
498
00:28:15,633 --> 00:28:17,217
and have indeed become too dependent
499
00:28:17,300 --> 00:28:20,300
upon the by-products
of our collective innovations.
500
00:28:24,266 --> 00:28:27,017
How fragile do we now find ourselves
501
00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:30,100
before the juggernaut
of our own inventions.
502
00:28:33,033 --> 00:28:36,033
However, our individual
and collective response to Y2K
503
00:28:37,700 --> 00:28:40,700
is actually far more important
than Y2K itself.
504
00:28:57,700 --> 00:29:00,700
We know that Y2K
is not about computers alone.
505
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,683
Y2K is about connection.
506
00:29:04,766 --> 00:29:05,750
And it's a metaphor
507
00:29:05,833 --> 00:29:08,833
for us being connected with each other.
508
00:29:09,133 --> 00:29:10,550
This group started with a group of people
509
00:29:10,633 --> 00:29:11,650
who got together and said,
510
00:29:11,733 --> 00:29:14,683
"Well, what can we do to promote
community preparedness
511
00:29:14,766 --> 00:29:17,183
for Y2K and beyond?"
512
00:29:17,266 --> 00:29:19,883
"What do we do
to create the kind of community
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00:29:19,966 --> 00:29:21,950
that America is known for?"
514
00:29:22,033 --> 00:29:25,033
Those small communities
where you walk down the street,
515
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,000
you say, "Hi,
how are you, Stalone?"
516
00:29:29,166 --> 00:29:30,317
"How you doing Bill?"
517
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,350
"How you doing, Suzie?
Good to see you again, Jim."
518
00:29:33,433 --> 00:29:36,433
We all know that we've got
a community like that.
519
00:29:37,300 --> 00:29:39,483
Mother Teresa once said that America
520
00:29:39,566 --> 00:29:41,650
was the loneliest country in the world
521
00:29:41,733 --> 00:29:44,733
and it's because we don't have
community anymore.
522
00:29:44,933 --> 00:29:46,917
And if...
523
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,550
if this is what comes out of this
524
00:29:48,633 --> 00:29:50,583
and there isn't a problem,
525
00:29:50,666 --> 00:29:53,650
but we've learned how to work together.
526
00:29:53,733 --> 00:29:54,917
I don't think that's...
527
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,000
You know, I don't think
that's a waste, um,
528
00:29:58,466 --> 00:30:01,466
'cause I know a lot of us feel
that the way we've been living
529
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,550
isn't totally satisfying.
530
00:30:03,633 --> 00:30:06,633
So, I think personally,
Y2K is more of a catalyst
531
00:30:07,066 --> 00:30:08,050
of a lot of things
532
00:30:08,133 --> 00:30:11,133
that's been going on for a long time.
533
00:30:14,933 --> 00:30:16,783
If I have my supply of food,
534
00:30:16,866 --> 00:30:19,850
but the people next to me don't have food,
535
00:30:19,933 --> 00:30:21,650
it's not gonna serve me well.
536
00:30:21,733 --> 00:30:24,117
So everybody has to be provided for.
537
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:25,983
So that's why I think
it's a collective problem,
538
00:30:26,066 --> 00:30:27,017
it's a social problem.
539
00:30:27,100 --> 00:30:28,750
It's no longer a technological problem.
540
00:30:28,833 --> 00:30:31,833
It's a social problem.
541
00:30:41,133 --> 00:30:42,617
What do you guys think about all the myths
542
00:30:42,700 --> 00:30:44,417
going around about the Y2K
543
00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:46,883
as far as, like, computers shutting down?
544
00:30:46,966 --> 00:30:49,550
My perspective of it is
that if man made it,
545
00:30:49,633 --> 00:30:52,283
it can fall apart.
I mean, you know what I mean?
546
00:30:52,366 --> 00:30:55,083
So I think that if
we do our responsibility
547
00:30:55,166 --> 00:30:56,917
of making sure that our things are safe,
548
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,250
making sure that
our families' things are safe
549
00:30:58,333 --> 00:31:00,217
and making sure that things in
our neighborhood are compliant.
550
00:31:00,300 --> 00:31:02,917
Then if everyone did that,
then we will be able to operate
551
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,083
and function even
if something did go wrong.
552
00:31:05,166 --> 00:31:08,083
I think it's everybody's responsibility
553
00:31:08,166 --> 00:31:09,683
to look out for everybody.
554
00:31:09,766 --> 00:31:11,683
The whole process with, you know,
555
00:31:11,766 --> 00:31:14,150
"It's Y2K, I'm gonna make sure that,
556
00:31:14,233 --> 00:31:16,483
you know, my neighborhood
has a power generator,
557
00:31:16,566 --> 00:31:19,250
but, you know, that neighborhood
over there.
558
00:31:19,333 --> 00:31:20,717
I don't know, that's not me.
559
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,617
I don't have to worry about it,
it's not my problem."
560
00:31:22,700 --> 00:31:24,850
You know? I think, you know,
it's everybody's problem.
561
00:31:24,933 --> 00:31:26,583
If it's a problem at all.
562
00:31:26,666 --> 00:31:28,917
I think that our governments are paranoid
563
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,983
probably just as much as any other person
564
00:31:31,066 --> 00:31:32,350
-on the street is...
-Mm-hmm.
565
00:31:32,433 --> 00:31:34,150
...because nobody knows
what's gonna happen.
566
00:31:34,233 --> 00:31:35,750
Nobody knows
567
00:31:35,833 --> 00:31:37,950
what the outcome of that is gonna be.
568
00:31:38,033 --> 00:31:40,583
I hope, really, I pray
569
00:31:40,666 --> 00:31:42,917
that people don't panic, you know?
570
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,350
'Cause I think... I think panic
571
00:31:44,433 --> 00:31:47,433
is gonna be the worst problem of the Y2K.
572
00:32:15,866 --> 00:32:18,550
Scott Olmstead led us more than 100 miles
573
00:32:18,633 --> 00:32:21,633
into the desert.
574
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,583
His hideaway is a secret retreat
575
00:32:36,666 --> 00:32:39,183
known only to his family.
576
00:32:39,266 --> 00:32:40,783
But Scott Olmsted is not a member
577
00:32:40,866 --> 00:32:42,817
of some fringe survivalist group.
578
00:32:42,900 --> 00:32:45,283
He's a well-paid computer programmer
579
00:32:45,366 --> 00:32:48,366
who says he's seen the potential
for disaster firsthand.
580
00:32:50,433 --> 00:32:53,433
I could see a lot of crime,
I could see looting and arson,
581
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,000
burning, the kinds of things
that happened in the LA riots.
582
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,183
I could see a lot of desperate people
583
00:33:01,266 --> 00:33:02,883
who don't have food,
584
00:33:02,966 --> 00:33:04,317
maybe they don't have water,
585
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:05,950
maybe they don't have electricity.
586
00:33:06,033 --> 00:33:09,033
Um, maybe they've lost all their savings,
587
00:33:09,133 --> 00:33:10,883
because the banks have collapsed
588
00:33:10,966 --> 00:33:13,017
or the stock market has collapsed.
589
00:33:13,100 --> 00:33:16,100
All those things are possibilities.
590
00:33:22,966 --> 00:33:25,683
We are making preparations for ourselves
591
00:33:25,766 --> 00:33:27,983
and for some family members.
592
00:33:28,066 --> 00:33:30,350
There is no way that we can feed
593
00:33:30,433 --> 00:33:33,433
or otherwise help, you know,
dozens or hundreds of people.
594
00:33:35,033 --> 00:33:37,717
And it's just best if we not
595
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,817
be put in that position
of having to decide
596
00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:41,617
who comes and who stays...
597
00:33:41,700 --> 00:33:44,700
...and who can't come.
598
00:33:48,866 --> 00:33:51,350
At first I thought
he was really exaggerating
599
00:33:51,433 --> 00:33:54,433
and that it couldn't be as bad
as he was making it out to be.
600
00:33:56,100 --> 00:33:57,250
And frankly,
601
00:33:57,333 --> 00:33:59,217
I went through all of those stages.
602
00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:02,217
I was angry. I was in denial.
603
00:34:02,300 --> 00:34:03,383
And then I realized
604
00:34:03,466 --> 00:34:06,117
once I started reading all of these things
605
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,250
that were being printed from the internet
606
00:34:08,333 --> 00:34:10,217
and mainstream articles
607
00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:13,300
that there really was a problem
and it wasn't going to go away.
608
00:34:33,966 --> 00:34:35,583
Ask these Y2K experts
609
00:34:35,666 --> 00:34:38,183
how much of the problem is real
and how much is hype?
610
00:34:38,266 --> 00:34:39,383
Well, I think, um,
611
00:34:39,466 --> 00:34:42,466
most of what you've heard so far is real.
612
00:34:43,833 --> 00:34:45,549
"Worst scenario, radiation problems
613
00:34:45,632 --> 00:34:47,482
make Three Mile Island
look like a picnic."
614
00:34:47,565 --> 00:34:50,150
"And likely to happen,
some battlefield equipment
615
00:34:50,233 --> 00:34:51,417
is junked rather than fixed."
616
00:34:51,500 --> 00:34:52,917
Yeah, but,
I mean, the overall impression...
617
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,083
"High-tech systems
get more attacks..."
618
00:34:54,166 --> 00:34:55,116
We didn't say the worst scenario.
619
00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:56,150
The worst scenario
620
00:34:56,233 --> 00:34:58,317
is what the consultants are saying.
621
00:34:58,400 --> 00:34:59,717
Joining us from Toronto,
622
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,517
computer consultant Peter de Jager.
623
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,417
Paloma O'Reilly is a computer expert.
624
00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:06,917
Some experts say
airplanes may fall from the sky,
625
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,417
the world financial system
could melt down.
626
00:35:09,500 --> 00:35:10,950
Mm, I might pull out some money
627
00:35:11,033 --> 00:35:12,717
just in case the computers go down.
628
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:13,850
I mean, you know.
629
00:35:13,933 --> 00:35:15,383
A lot of people saying
there's gonna be nothing
630
00:35:15,466 --> 00:35:17,083
that's gonna be wrong.
There's a lot of people saying
631
00:35:17,166 --> 00:35:18,517
there's gonna be something wrong.
632
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,550
Well, I won't be flying anytime,
633
00:35:20,633 --> 00:35:22,483
beginning of January or February.
634
00:35:22,566 --> 00:35:24,650
So I'll make sure I don't.
635
00:35:24,733 --> 00:35:25,717
I wanna make...
-Why?
636
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:26,783
Because I'm afraid.
637
00:35:26,866 --> 00:35:29,617
I just hope that... that...
638
00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:32,700
all the nuclear stockpiles
are under control.
639
00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:35,050
According to a TIME/CNN poll,
640
00:35:35,133 --> 00:35:36,783
the level of concern about Y2K,
641
00:35:36,866 --> 00:35:39,583
somewhat/very concerned, 59 percent.
642
00:35:39,666 --> 00:35:41,817
Americans willing to move to a rural area,
643
00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:43,617
like you Scott, 12 percent.
644
00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:45,850
So you're mainstream,
for once in your life, Scott.
645
00:35:45,933 --> 00:35:48,933
Hey, I'm not so far out as I thought.
646
00:35:56,466 --> 00:35:59,150
There's so much information
clutter on this whole topic.
647
00:35:59,233 --> 00:36:00,383
And it does scare people.
648
00:36:00,466 --> 00:36:02,017
"In the garage,
you can't get your car started
649
00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:03,250
because its front panel detects
650
00:36:03,333 --> 00:36:04,383
that the car hasn't been serviced
651
00:36:04,466 --> 00:36:05,550
in almost a century."
652
00:36:05,633 --> 00:36:08,517
I mean, that's pretty specific.
Where did that come from?
653
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,600
Well, that came from de Jager actually.
654
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,650
Mr. Jager, good evening,
welcome to Crossfire.
655
00:36:15,733 --> 00:36:17,583
Can I ask you a personal question first?
656
00:36:17,666 --> 00:36:19,717
Sure.
-I just have to notice this.
657
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:20,817
I mean...
658
00:36:20,900 --> 00:36:22,550
...is this a doomsday tie
659
00:36:22,633 --> 00:36:23,783
-that you're wearing?
-No. It's actually
660
00:36:23,866 --> 00:36:24,817
just a sense of humor.
661
00:36:24,900 --> 00:36:26,417
I mean, if you can't laugh at this,
662
00:36:26,500 --> 00:36:27,917
then we may as well
all just slit our wrists.
663
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,917
Well, I mean, you're like
a walking billboard
664
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,183
for Doomsday.
665
00:36:31,266 --> 00:36:32,450
Peter, let me ask you this.
666
00:36:32,533 --> 00:36:34,650
I mean, is...
Let's be real honest here. Okay?
667
00:36:34,733 --> 00:36:36,183
I mean, I've looked a little bit into you
668
00:36:36,266 --> 00:36:39,266
and you got this book out.
I mean, you got a website
669
00:36:39,666 --> 00:36:42,117
where you're selling everything
from videotapes
670
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,200
for 75 bucks to watches, to...
671
00:36:45,533 --> 00:36:47,417
Maybe even to ties, I don't know,
672
00:36:47,500 --> 00:36:48,950
to handbooks dealing with this.
673
00:36:49,033 --> 00:36:50,983
I mean, you're a one-man
gloom and doom industry.
674
00:36:51,066 --> 00:36:52,317
You don't want this problem to go away
675
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:53,550
'cause you'd be out of a job.
676
00:36:53,633 --> 00:36:56,350
On the contrary, and I rej...
I really resent that.
677
00:36:56,433 --> 00:36:58,250
This has to be solved.
678
00:36:58,333 --> 00:36:59,917
What we want is for it to solve.
679
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,650
What we want is for people
to take this thing seriously.
680
00:37:02,733 --> 00:37:04,483
What we want is on January 1st
681
00:37:04,566 --> 00:37:06,017
for you to get me back
on the show and say,
682
00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:08,317
"Peter nothing happened,"
and my job will be done
683
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,783
and the jobs of several hundred
other people.
684
00:37:10,866 --> 00:37:13,517
The reality is that the IRS, for example,
685
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,417
is spending a billion dollars.
686
00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:16,617
Why are they spending that money?
687
00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:19,700
Because I'm a good speaker.
Come on! Give them some credit.
688
00:37:20,433 --> 00:37:22,917
Well, I mean, I've read that you
get 7,500 dollars for a speech,
689
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,450
that's more than...
-How much do you get?
690
00:37:24,533 --> 00:37:25,817
-Don't give me that.
-...Novak and Buchanan.
691
00:37:25,900 --> 00:37:27,150
But look at this.
Here's this page,
692
00:37:27,233 --> 00:37:29,683
half a page ad that you yourself
693
00:37:29,766 --> 00:37:31,150
took out promoting...
-No, no, no.
694
00:37:31,233 --> 00:37:32,983
...your own self
in The Wall Street Journal.
695
00:37:33,066 --> 00:37:34,450
It's got your website here and everything.
696
00:37:34,533 --> 00:37:35,517
Please. Let's not...
697
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,750
You're selling yourself
as Dr. Doom aren't you?
698
00:37:37,833 --> 00:37:39,617
Let's get the facts right.
699
00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:41,483
Let's not do another sarin on air.
700
00:37:41,566 --> 00:37:43,350
This was paid for by...
-Touché.
701
00:37:43,433 --> 00:37:45,517
This was paid for
by The Wall Street Journal.
702
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,283
This is not an ad I took out.
-But... But...
703
00:37:47,366 --> 00:37:48,950
They...
And they gave me a byline.
704
00:37:49,033 --> 00:37:50,417
All your information is up here right?
705
00:37:50,500 --> 00:37:52,383
Absolutely!
-But aren't you making a living
706
00:37:52,466 --> 00:37:53,850
-by scaring people to death?
-Yes!
707
00:37:53,933 --> 00:37:56,150
I'm making a living
by telling them the truth.
708
00:37:56,233 --> 00:37:57,550
Now if the truth scares them,
709
00:37:57,633 --> 00:38:00,633
please don't shoot the messenger.
-All right.
710
00:38:14,966 --> 00:38:17,517
Is this your outfit for Y2K?
711
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,600
It sure is. I'm Farmer Jane now.
712
00:38:21,933 --> 00:38:24,933
How you doing?
713
00:38:26,566 --> 00:38:29,566
Got any eggs for me today?
Let's see.
714
00:38:30,900 --> 00:38:33,900
I felt like when my congressman
laughed at my inquiries,
715
00:38:36,300 --> 00:38:37,817
and the mayors
716
00:38:37,900 --> 00:38:40,900
and the local media
wouldn't report it seriously,
717
00:38:42,566 --> 00:38:44,617
that it was pretty hopeless.
718
00:38:44,700 --> 00:38:46,683
Because Peter de Jager said
719
00:38:46,766 --> 00:38:49,766
that if you didn't get going in '89,
720
00:38:50,533 --> 00:38:52,950
it was gonna be hopeless.
721
00:38:53,033 --> 00:38:55,250
And so, uh...
722
00:38:55,333 --> 00:38:58,333
I put my business up for sale.
723
00:38:59,833 --> 00:39:02,833
So, it's not going to be easy
for us financially
724
00:39:03,833 --> 00:39:06,183
if Year 2K doesn't happen
725
00:39:06,266 --> 00:39:09,266
because we have sold off our assets.
726
00:39:09,466 --> 00:39:12,466
But it's much more important
for us to have this cash now
727
00:39:14,033 --> 00:39:17,033
and put it in our Year 2K preparations.
728
00:39:22,866 --> 00:39:24,017
In a year from now,
729
00:39:24,100 --> 00:39:27,100
I anticipate the home
will be full of the smell
730
00:39:27,266 --> 00:39:29,783
of fresh bread and the wood stove.
731
00:39:29,866 --> 00:39:32,866
We'll have some sewing to be doing,
732
00:39:33,466 --> 00:39:36,466
um, fresh eggs, the animals to feed,
733
00:39:37,833 --> 00:39:40,833
and it'll be time to just really connect,
734
00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:44,900
brush up on my piano skills.
735
00:39:45,966 --> 00:39:47,583
Do you think of yourself
736
00:39:47,666 --> 00:39:50,666
as a Y2K survivalist or...
737
00:39:53,066 --> 00:39:55,217
-In terms of Y2K?
-Well, I'm...
738
00:39:55,300 --> 00:39:58,300
I'm a grandma turned Year 2K-er
739
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,600
and when I couldn't get
my local community to listen,
740
00:40:03,966 --> 00:40:06,966
I found that there was thousands
of people on the internet
741
00:40:07,100 --> 00:40:09,550
that wanted information
about rural living.
742
00:40:09,633 --> 00:40:11,617
And so I set up a website
743
00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:14,700
and we've had thousands
that have visited it,
744
00:40:15,233 --> 00:40:17,417
and we're just trying
to encourage people here
745
00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:20,500
that rural living can be fun
and you can make the adjustment.
746
00:40:30,566 --> 00:40:32,417
You can use it with either hot water,
747
00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:34,583
you can fix it with cold water,
748
00:40:34,666 --> 00:40:36,183
or if you had to, you can even eat it raw.
749
00:40:36,266 --> 00:40:37,517
Now I don't recommend eating it raw.
750
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,517
I mean, it'll...
...it'll swell up.
751
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,150
You can make anything solar,
752
00:40:41,233 --> 00:40:42,850
any flashlights, any radio you have,
753
00:40:42,933 --> 00:40:44,350
you can make it
with a solar battery charger.
754
00:40:44,433 --> 00:40:47,433
-You can make anything solar.
-I see.
755
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,200
Um... Okay.
756
00:40:52,566 --> 00:40:55,566
-Why don't I go ahead with that.
-Okay.
757
00:40:57,766 --> 00:40:59,483
There's a lot more books being written,
758
00:40:59,566 --> 00:41:01,083
a lot more on the internet.
759
00:41:01,166 --> 00:41:04,166
And I think that
there is a potential problem
760
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,400
that might occur, and no one knows,
761
00:41:08,500 --> 00:41:10,917
but I'd rather be prepared for my family
762
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,883
and if there isn't a problem
then we're set.
763
00:41:13,966 --> 00:41:15,517
You know, and that's just less shopping
764
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,600
I'll have to do next year.
765
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,350
In the past, these shows drew survivalists
766
00:41:26,433 --> 00:41:29,050
who were here for political
or religious views
767
00:41:29,133 --> 00:41:30,317
about their survival.
768
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:31,783
Now you're seeing a whole new group
769
00:41:31,866 --> 00:41:34,866
of people come out.
770
00:41:42,066 --> 00:41:45,066
All that Crisco makes
my chicken taste oh, so good.
771
00:41:45,300 --> 00:41:47,983
Here, would anybody like
a great big old lick?
772
00:41:48,066 --> 00:41:51,066
Nobody would.
773
00:42:10,233 --> 00:42:12,017
It's not so much the computers failing,
774
00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:14,150
it's that I'm worried about
what the people are gonna panic
775
00:42:14,233 --> 00:42:15,883
before the year.
776
00:42:15,966 --> 00:42:18,966
I think we're going to be the problem.
777
00:42:27,266 --> 00:42:28,883
It not only brings your knife out
778
00:42:28,966 --> 00:42:30,083
in an open position,
779
00:42:30,166 --> 00:42:33,166
but also you can present
your blade closed.
780
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:43,783
This is the sheet that you need
to go by very carefully
781
00:42:43,866 --> 00:42:46,317
to keep from being set up
entrapped, et cetera.
782
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,400
So many people already
have been in America.
783
00:42:52,833 --> 00:42:54,883
Please welcome the godfather
784
00:42:54,966 --> 00:42:57,966
of the militia movement,
Mr. John Trochmann.
785
00:42:59,366 --> 00:43:01,350
Trochmann is appearing at what is called
786
00:43:01,433 --> 00:43:03,283
a preparedness expo.
787
00:43:03,366 --> 00:43:05,050
It's on our videotape over there too.
788
00:43:05,133 --> 00:43:06,450
Distrust of the government
789
00:43:06,533 --> 00:43:09,083
has increased considerably,
says Trochmann.
790
00:43:09,166 --> 00:43:11,117
The bombs of Oklahoma went off.
791
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:14,200
For the next three months
after that, we doubled in size.
792
00:43:23,066 --> 00:43:25,150
Good morning.
Militia of Montana.
793
00:43:25,233 --> 00:43:27,750
From this tiny office, John Trochmann
794
00:43:27,833 --> 00:43:30,317
says he and his followers
are leading a revolution.
795
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,400
They're now arming themselves
against the federal government.
796
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:35,083
I don't think they leave us a choice
797
00:43:35,166 --> 00:43:36,417
if they continue on like this.
798
00:43:36,500 --> 00:43:37,950
They're the ones
that will bring war to us.
799
00:43:38,033 --> 00:43:41,033
We will never bring war to them,
they will bring it to us.
800
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,417
Promoting that kind of paranoia,
801
00:43:47,500 --> 00:43:49,583
conspiracy theory, vigilantism,
802
00:43:49,666 --> 00:43:51,917
take things into your own hands by force.
803
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,917
While the leaders of it
might be very sincere
804
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,150
in believing
that they will never be the ones
805
00:43:57,233 --> 00:43:59,417
to pull the trigger and shoot somebody.
806
00:43:59,500 --> 00:44:02,500
They nonetheless fuel the fires
and create a climate
807
00:44:03,966 --> 00:44:06,966
in which some of their followers
well might.
808
00:44:09,733 --> 00:44:11,283
Some militia groups now worry
809
00:44:11,366 --> 00:44:14,017
that the US government,
aided by foreign countries,
810
00:44:14,100 --> 00:44:17,100
could use the computer collapse
as an excuse to grab more power.
811
00:44:57,266 --> 00:45:00,266
Greetings folks.
In the spring of 1997,
812
00:45:00,866 --> 00:45:02,583
we produced a video production called
813
00:45:02,666 --> 00:45:05,050
America's Judgments, What Lies Ahead.
814
00:45:05,133 --> 00:45:07,250
We were aware of Y2K, but at the time,
815
00:45:07,333 --> 00:45:08,717
we did not take it serious enough
816
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,283
to put it in our video.
817
00:45:10,366 --> 00:45:12,083
Not until we did our own investigation
818
00:45:12,166 --> 00:45:15,166
did we realize how serious
it actually could be.
819
00:45:16,100 --> 00:45:17,583
Don't take my word for it.
820
00:45:17,666 --> 00:45:20,150
Let us share with you the documentation
821
00:45:20,233 --> 00:45:21,550
that we have here.
822
00:45:21,633 --> 00:45:23,450
And you can make up your own minds.
823
00:45:23,533 --> 00:45:25,817
On December 3rd, 1998.
John Koskinen,
824
00:45:25,900 --> 00:45:28,900
which is the Y2K guru
for President Clinton, said,
825
00:45:30,500 --> 00:45:32,250
"In a crisis and emergency situation,
826
00:45:32,333 --> 00:45:34,050
the free market may not
827
00:45:34,133 --> 00:45:36,650
be the best way
to distribute resources."
828
00:45:36,733 --> 00:45:39,733
"If there is a point in time
where we have to take resources
829
00:45:40,666 --> 00:45:42,583
and make a judgment on an emergency basis,
830
00:45:42,666 --> 00:45:45,350
we will be prepared to do that."
831
00:45:45,433 --> 00:45:48,433
So folks, now that we perceive
there may be a problem with Y2K
832
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,150
and their dirty little tricks,
833
00:45:52,233 --> 00:45:54,283
what do you think the government
is doing about it?
834
00:45:54,366 --> 00:45:57,366
Perhaps we ought to have a look.
835
00:46:10,100 --> 00:46:11,717
We have increasing confidence
836
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,417
that the basic infrastructure
in the United States will hold.
837
00:46:14,500 --> 00:46:15,717
The grid will hold.
838
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,117
I think major telecommunication
systems will hold.
839
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,017
We're increasingly confident
840
00:46:20,100 --> 00:46:21,883
that the basic infrastructure will hold.
841
00:46:21,966 --> 00:46:23,583
There's no evidence that we're gonna have
842
00:46:23,666 --> 00:46:24,783
a national catastrophe.
843
00:46:24,866 --> 00:46:25,817
Mission critical systems
844
00:46:25,900 --> 00:46:27,050
of the federal government are gonna work.
845
00:46:27,133 --> 00:46:30,133
So we're in pretty good shape.
846
00:46:30,566 --> 00:46:33,566
I guess I'll start off with the criticism
847
00:46:33,866 --> 00:46:36,717
from the Y2K community,
848
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,250
maybe because you represent
the government.
849
00:46:39,333 --> 00:46:40,417
But the criticism has been
850
00:46:40,500 --> 00:46:42,250
that you've been overly optimistic
851
00:46:42,333 --> 00:46:44,017
about your assessments.
852
00:46:44,100 --> 00:46:46,650
I think what you have to do
is take with a grain of salt,
853
00:46:46,733 --> 00:46:48,350
uh, those people who are concerned about
854
00:46:48,433 --> 00:46:50,883
whether we were over optimistic
or under optimistic.
855
00:46:50,966 --> 00:46:53,250
The ultimate rumor I would like to dispel
856
00:46:53,333 --> 00:46:55,250
is that somehow we have information
857
00:46:55,333 --> 00:46:57,283
in the federal government
or in the President's Council
858
00:46:57,366 --> 00:46:59,183
that we're not sharing with the public.
859
00:46:59,266 --> 00:47:02,183
And there is no evidence,
860
00:47:02,266 --> 00:47:03,517
nobody's ever been able to establish
861
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:04,817
something we know that we haven't told.
862
00:47:04,900 --> 00:47:07,850
And in fact, our strategy,
for now going on to two years,
863
00:47:07,933 --> 00:47:09,183
has been to share with the public
864
00:47:09,266 --> 00:47:11,017
everything we have as we get it.
865
00:47:11,100 --> 00:47:13,050
So the... As I said,
I think the rumor
866
00:47:13,133 --> 00:47:14,817
that there's this secret information
867
00:47:14,900 --> 00:47:16,883
that we're somehow afraid to release
868
00:47:16,966 --> 00:47:18,250
is just that, a rumor.
869
00:47:18,333 --> 00:47:20,317
Do you think that on the other side,
870
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,883
that there are areas or people
871
00:47:22,966 --> 00:47:25,966
that are actually contributing to panic?
872
00:47:27,700 --> 00:47:30,483
Well, there are clearly
those from the start,
873
00:47:30,566 --> 00:47:32,150
over the last three to four years,
874
00:47:32,233 --> 00:47:33,983
who have, for one reason or another,
875
00:47:34,066 --> 00:47:37,066
been predicting the end
of the world as we know it.
876
00:47:47,566 --> 00:47:49,050
Surf through the internet these days
877
00:47:49,133 --> 00:47:52,133
and you keep coming across
a strange new word, TEOTWAWKI.
878
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:54,783
The word stands for
879
00:47:54,866 --> 00:47:57,866
"The End Of The World
As We Know It."
880
00:48:00,833 --> 00:48:03,833
For a growing number of people,
the year 2000 is not a milestone
881
00:48:04,466 --> 00:48:07,466
as much as it is a sign
of some sort of impending chaos.
882
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,450
We're reaching a climax
883
00:48:11,533 --> 00:48:13,783
where things have become so evil
884
00:48:13,866 --> 00:48:16,866
and the world has become in such a state
885
00:48:16,966 --> 00:48:19,966
that it's ushering
in the entrance of Christ.
886
00:48:21,733 --> 00:48:24,733
The last time this happened
1,000 years ago, the year 1000.
887
00:48:25,266 --> 00:48:26,783
Man, there were end of the world cults
888
00:48:26,866 --> 00:48:28,317
and all sorts of doomsday stuff
889
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:29,450
and people were going around
890
00:48:29,533 --> 00:48:30,617
hitting themselves with whips and stuff.
891
00:48:30,700 --> 00:48:32,183
Do you think that's gonna happen
this year?
892
00:48:32,266 --> 00:48:34,783
I hope not.
893
00:48:34,866 --> 00:48:37,750
I don't feel like the exact year 2000
894
00:48:37,833 --> 00:48:39,683
is the year all hell breaks loose.
895
00:48:39,766 --> 00:48:42,283
But I just feel like
in every holy scripture,
896
00:48:42,366 --> 00:48:44,017
it has been predicted that this time
897
00:48:44,100 --> 00:48:47,100
would be a significant time.
You know what I'm saying?
898
00:48:48,933 --> 00:48:51,933
The concept of the millennium
is a Christian concept.
899
00:48:52,466 --> 00:48:55,466
People in general have a sense
that the world
900
00:48:56,566 --> 00:48:59,566
isn't the way they'd want the world to be.
901
00:49:00,033 --> 00:49:02,550
An event which focuses that energy
902
00:49:02,633 --> 00:49:05,633
takes out a magnifying glass
and puts it above the tinderbox.
903
00:49:09,966 --> 00:49:11,883
The ten hours that my son stays
904
00:49:11,966 --> 00:49:13,383
in front of the computer,
905
00:49:13,466 --> 00:49:16,466
it's almost become an idol.
So it's maybe only just
906
00:49:16,833 --> 00:49:19,833
that this idol comes crashing down.
907
00:49:21,166 --> 00:49:24,166
The question I ask myself is this...
908
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:28,400
"Could this be God's way
to bring revival to America?"
909
00:49:31,733 --> 00:49:34,050
Now all of this should come as no surprise
910
00:49:34,133 --> 00:49:36,117
considering a recent Newsweek poll
911
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:37,983
saying 40 percent of Americans
912
00:49:38,066 --> 00:49:41,066
believe the world will end
as Revelation describes.
913
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:43,383
I have the feeling that something terrible
914
00:49:43,466 --> 00:49:46,466
is going to happen.
915
00:49:47,066 --> 00:49:48,250
"The end of the world."
916
00:49:48,333 --> 00:49:49,750
"A guide to millennium madness."
917
00:49:49,833 --> 00:49:52,833
How much of this is that the fear of Y2K
918
00:49:53,933 --> 00:49:56,650
may now be bigger than Y2K?
919
00:49:56,733 --> 00:49:58,317
It's not just that.
920
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:00,117
It's that there are now two camps.
921
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:01,917
There are the people like myself
who are saying
922
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,017
we have a technical problem,
let's deal with it.
923
00:50:04,100 --> 00:50:05,417
And then quite frankly,
924
00:50:05,500 --> 00:50:07,483
there are people in the far right
925
00:50:07,566 --> 00:50:10,566
on the fringe elements
of the religious area,
926
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,800
who are deliberately predicting
the very, very worst.
927
00:50:15,133 --> 00:50:18,133
The message is getting mixed,
and that both dilutes my message
928
00:50:19,766 --> 00:50:22,766
and amplifies this stuff.
-Yes, this kind of...
929
00:50:23,366 --> 00:50:24,883
And this is one of the reasons
930
00:50:24,966 --> 00:50:26,350
why the far right
931
00:50:26,433 --> 00:50:29,417
have seized upon year 2000,
because it is a problem.
932
00:50:29,500 --> 00:50:30,850
And they can point to the newspaper
933
00:50:30,933 --> 00:50:32,717
every single day and say,
"See, I told you.
934
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:34,117
I told you."
-Yeah.
935
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:35,483
And that's what's getting people
936
00:50:35,566 --> 00:50:38,566
who don't understand technology
very, very frightened.
937
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,400
We are going to be discussing
one of the most serious topics
938
00:50:53,533 --> 00:50:56,083
that we have ever attempted
to bring to you.
939
00:50:56,166 --> 00:50:58,283
Jack, in fact, you've been so burdened...
940
00:50:58,366 --> 00:51:01,083
...about this huge problem,
941
00:51:01,166 --> 00:51:04,166
that this is an emergency video
that we're making, actually.
942
00:51:06,100 --> 00:51:09,100
After studying 250 to 300 major reports
943
00:51:09,966 --> 00:51:12,783
from experts globally,
944
00:51:12,866 --> 00:51:15,866
I can honestly say I'm shocked,
startled, and stunned.
945
00:51:18,833 --> 00:51:21,183
If these men are right,
946
00:51:21,266 --> 00:51:24,266
this whole world is going
to rock and roll,
947
00:51:24,433 --> 00:51:27,433
it's going to reel to and fro.
948
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:30,250
What am I to do about this?
949
00:51:30,333 --> 00:51:33,333
Well, God says my job is to warn you.
950
00:51:35,133 --> 00:51:37,150
Let's narrow it right down there, Jack.
951
00:51:37,233 --> 00:51:40,233
How's the Y2K problem connected
with the Lord's return?
952
00:51:41,833 --> 00:51:43,583
Satan, who's the God of this world,
953
00:51:43,666 --> 00:51:46,150
2nd Corinthians 4:4,
is in control
954
00:51:46,233 --> 00:51:49,233
of heavens one and two.
955
00:51:49,633 --> 00:51:52,417
"He is the prince of the power
of the air."
956
00:51:52,500 --> 00:51:53,450
Of the airwaves.
957
00:51:53,533 --> 00:51:56,350
Yes, the electricity and the currents.
958
00:51:56,433 --> 00:51:58,250
Well, you know, certainly Satan
could take advantage
959
00:51:58,333 --> 00:52:01,083
of such a situation
because he wants man's confusion
960
00:52:01,166 --> 00:52:03,150
just prior to the return of the Lord.
961
00:52:03,233 --> 00:52:06,233
I am literally amazed
at the accuracy of this book.
962
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,200
Listen to this.
"The passages are stopped
963
00:52:12,566 --> 00:52:15,566
and the men of war
are frightened."
964
00:52:16,233 --> 00:52:17,383
What?
965
00:52:17,466 --> 00:52:20,466
The passages, the means
of communication, computers...
966
00:52:23,500 --> 00:52:26,283
are stopped.
967
00:52:26,366 --> 00:52:28,950
It's so near.
968
00:52:29,033 --> 00:52:30,883
Are you ready?
969
00:52:30,966 --> 00:52:33,117
It's the night on everyone's mind.
970
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:36,050
This could affect half
the continental United States.
971
00:52:36,133 --> 00:52:37,417
Three, two...
972
00:52:37,500 --> 00:52:39,317
The night they warned us about.
973
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,683
Now we're starting to see some problems.
974
00:52:41,766 --> 00:52:42,917
Happy New Year!
975
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:44,217
What if they're right?
976
00:52:44,300 --> 00:52:45,717
My God.
977
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:47,483
We have to start the evacuation.
978
00:52:47,566 --> 00:52:48,817
The survival of millions
979
00:52:48,900 --> 00:52:50,250
hangs in the balance.
980
00:52:50,333 --> 00:52:52,117
-We've lost this puppy.
-Go! Everybody out!
981
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:55,117
Just tell yourself it's only a movie.
982
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:58,200
And now, Y2K: The Movie.
983
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:03,917
Our age of anxiety
is truly the millennial age.
984
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:05,417
All the dread about AIDS,
985
00:53:05,500 --> 00:53:08,017
nuclear weapons, ecological disasters,
986
00:53:08,100 --> 00:53:11,100
point to a fear of an apocalyptic future.
987
00:53:11,333 --> 00:53:13,950
And at the same time,
the dream of ending disease,
988
00:53:14,033 --> 00:53:16,683
of genetically altering crops
to grow in the desert,
989
00:53:16,766 --> 00:53:18,517
of populating other planets,
990
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:21,483
all point to a hope for a perfect future.
991
00:53:21,566 --> 00:53:23,583
That's what the Millennium Myth
is all about.
992
00:53:23,666 --> 00:53:25,983
That the human journey is one with a goal,
993
00:53:26,066 --> 00:53:29,066
an ultimate end of some sorts, a climax.
994
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:31,083
And tonight we're going
to examine that myth
995
00:53:31,166 --> 00:53:34,166
and how it's playing out
in our high-tech culture.
996
00:53:46,700 --> 00:53:49,417
I think popular culture,
you know television, films,
997
00:53:49,500 --> 00:53:51,783
I think it is interesting to look at those
998
00:53:51,866 --> 00:53:54,283
and see what shape they take
on at particular times.
999
00:53:54,366 --> 00:53:55,950
It's never arbitrary.
1000
00:53:56,033 --> 00:53:59,033
The world as it was
at the end of the 20th century.
1001
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:03,000
It exists now only as part of
a neural interactive simulation
1002
00:54:03,933 --> 00:54:06,933
that we call the Matrix.
1003
00:54:10,866 --> 00:54:11,983
This kind of anxiety
1004
00:54:12,066 --> 00:54:14,217
is not restricted to the fringes,
1005
00:54:14,300 --> 00:54:17,300
not restricted to Christians.
1006
00:54:18,700 --> 00:54:20,683
What in the hell is that?
1007
00:54:20,766 --> 00:54:23,766
It's everywhere.
1008
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:28,283
The culture comes under the influence
1009
00:54:28,366 --> 00:54:31,366
of this force of expectation.
1010
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:38,917
And it's now focused, intensified
1011
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,000
by reaching this deadline.
1012
00:54:44,566 --> 00:54:47,566
Time's up.
1013
00:55:12,266 --> 00:55:14,983
Now, I got a story for you.
A few years ago,
1014
00:55:15,066 --> 00:55:17,717
when all was quiet throughout
the countryside,
1015
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:19,250
everyone had the general knowledge
1016
00:55:19,333 --> 00:55:22,017
that the turn of the century
was at hand, the year 2000.
1017
00:55:22,100 --> 00:55:23,450
You like this, don't you?
The year 2000
1018
00:55:23,533 --> 00:55:25,683
would soon be upon us,
who would have thought?
1019
00:55:25,766 --> 00:55:27,383
And who would've thought
that our next guest
1020
00:55:27,466 --> 00:55:28,650
would come to the forefront.
1021
00:55:28,733 --> 00:55:30,150
We welcome Peter de Jager.
1022
00:55:30,233 --> 00:55:32,050
Tonight, he is not gonna try to scare us.
1023
00:55:32,133 --> 00:55:33,317
Thank you so much for coming down.
1024
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:34,550
You're welcome.
-Tell me this,
1025
00:55:34,633 --> 00:55:36,950
how do you put yourself
in a situation where at first
1026
00:55:37,033 --> 00:55:38,050
you were one of the ones saying
1027
00:55:38,133 --> 00:55:39,683
watch out for Y2K, and then...
-Absolutely.
1028
00:55:39,766 --> 00:55:40,950
...if I understand you
correctly,
1029
00:55:41,033 --> 00:55:42,783
now you're saying to everyone,
1030
00:55:42,866 --> 00:55:45,550
"Don't panic, calm down.
It's not gonna be that bad."
1031
00:55:45,633 --> 00:55:47,283
What's the difference?
-In the beginning,
1032
00:55:47,366 --> 00:55:48,617
when we started to speak about this,
1033
00:55:48,700 --> 00:55:50,250
myself and many others,
1034
00:55:50,333 --> 00:55:52,050
there had been very little work done,
1035
00:55:52,133 --> 00:55:54,983
and very little attention
or respect paid to this problem.
1036
00:55:55,066 --> 00:55:56,817
So there was a huge risk
that if we didn't fix it,
1037
00:55:56,900 --> 00:55:58,583
there would be consequences.
1038
00:55:58,666 --> 00:56:01,666
Today, you know, five, six,
seven years later down the line,
1039
00:56:02,100 --> 00:56:03,850
the banks and the insurance companies,
1040
00:56:03,933 --> 00:56:06,183
governments and power companies
have all done
1041
00:56:06,266 --> 00:56:07,983
a tremendous amount of work, you know,
1042
00:56:08,066 --> 00:56:10,183
hundreds of billions of dollars
have been spent
1043
00:56:10,266 --> 00:56:11,717
on this problem worldwide.
1044
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:14,683
And we have averted many of the scenarios,
1045
00:56:14,766 --> 00:56:17,517
the disaster scenarios
that we first came up with,
1046
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:20,050
that we used to convince people
that they should pay attention.
1047
00:56:20,133 --> 00:56:22,650
They have paid attention.
1048
00:56:22,733 --> 00:56:25,050
That's a sound that gets
your attention real quick.
1049
00:56:25,133 --> 00:56:27,983
Well, the end of the year
is bringing a big increase in,
1050
00:56:28,066 --> 00:56:29,750
of all things, gun sales.
1051
00:56:29,833 --> 00:56:32,650
And it's apparently
being sparked at least in part
1052
00:56:32,733 --> 00:56:35,050
by fear that the coming of the new year
1053
00:56:35,133 --> 00:56:38,133
will bring a new wave of violence.
1054
00:56:39,900 --> 00:56:42,417
Y2K gun buyers say
they're afraid of everything
1055
00:56:42,500 --> 00:56:44,783
from terrorism to 911 failures.
1056
00:56:44,866 --> 00:56:47,317
I just wanted to be prepared in case,
1057
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:48,950
you know, anything happens for Y2K
1058
00:56:49,033 --> 00:56:52,033
just to have an ounce
of prevention, you know?
1059
00:56:52,133 --> 00:56:53,417
Sharon is not alone.
1060
00:56:53,500 --> 00:56:55,717
Mandatory gun background checks this month
1061
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:58,250
are up 20 percent from last December
1062
00:56:58,333 --> 00:57:00,650
and last Thursday set the record.
1063
00:57:00,733 --> 00:57:03,733
Sixty-seven thousand checks in one day.
1064
00:57:07,433 --> 00:57:08,917
News organizations in this country,
1065
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,150
including this one, are trying to avoid
1066
00:57:11,233 --> 00:57:14,217
causing any kind of panic
with reports about terrorism
1067
00:57:14,300 --> 00:57:15,550
and the coming new year.
1068
00:57:15,633 --> 00:57:18,633
Tonight fear avoidance
is getting rather difficult.
1069
00:57:19,066 --> 00:57:20,717
I'm concerned about the terrorism.
1070
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:23,217
I don't have any intention
to leave my house.
1071
00:57:23,300 --> 00:57:24,517
The principal concern,
1072
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:25,717
Osama bin Laden.
1073
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:27,817
A flurry of activity by his followers
1074
00:57:27,900 --> 00:57:30,900
leads experts to believe
he is planning another attack.
1075
00:57:31,866 --> 00:57:33,883
The threat of homegrown terrorism
1076
00:57:33,966 --> 00:57:35,317
suddenly became clear
1077
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:37,183
with the arrest of two men linked
1078
00:57:37,266 --> 00:57:40,266
to anti-government militias
near Sacramento.
1079
00:57:42,433 --> 00:57:45,083
In New York City,
officials scoffed at the idea
1080
00:57:45,166 --> 00:57:47,983
of canceling New Year's Eve
in Times Square.
1081
00:57:48,066 --> 00:57:50,950
We are literally
doing everything we possibly can
1082
00:57:51,033 --> 00:57:54,033
to make it as safe as we can make it.
1083
00:57:58,200 --> 00:57:59,817
We're coming here a little bit early
1084
00:57:59,900 --> 00:58:01,450
to kind of be a part of it
1085
00:58:01,533 --> 00:58:04,083
even though we're not coming in
on New Year's Eve.
1086
00:58:04,166 --> 00:58:05,617
You're not coming to Times Square?
-Nah.
1087
00:58:05,700 --> 00:58:06,883
I'm not coming to Times Square,
1088
00:58:06,966 --> 00:58:08,750
I'm just gonna watch it
from television at home.
1089
00:58:08,833 --> 00:58:10,117
I'm exhausted.
-Mm-hmm.
1090
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:13,200
I don't wanna hear
another thing about Y2K.
1091
00:58:13,433 --> 00:58:15,183
What are we doing on New Year's Eve?
1092
00:58:15,266 --> 00:58:17,183
We'll be hiding somewhere.
1093
00:58:17,266 --> 00:58:19,550
In case the world ends or something.
1094
00:58:19,633 --> 00:58:21,017
You know?
-But we're very optimistic.
1095
00:58:21,100 --> 00:58:24,100
In case everything just goes...
1096
00:58:24,700 --> 00:58:26,183
These computer programmers
1097
00:58:26,266 --> 00:58:29,050
have been hired to double check
line after line
1098
00:58:29,133 --> 00:58:30,250
of computer code.
1099
00:58:30,333 --> 00:58:32,550
Clients are still sending us code
1100
00:58:32,633 --> 00:58:34,583
to be inspected for Y2K
1101
00:58:34,666 --> 00:58:37,666
and we are definitely
still finding errors.
1102
00:58:40,566 --> 00:58:42,017
Tonight, by one estimate,
1103
00:58:42,100 --> 00:58:45,100
seventy percent of Americans
buying emergency supplies
1104
00:58:45,300 --> 00:58:48,017
to welcome the new year.
1105
00:58:48,100 --> 00:58:50,950
Basically, they don't know what to expect.
1106
00:58:51,033 --> 00:58:52,850
Planes will fall out of the sky
1107
00:58:52,933 --> 00:58:55,317
and all the world's
nuclear weapons will explode,
1108
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,383
annihilating the entire planet.
1109
00:58:57,466 --> 00:59:00,466
No!
1110
00:59:01,166 --> 00:59:03,550
We're more concerned with people problems
1111
00:59:03,633 --> 00:59:05,483
as opposed to technology failures
1112
00:59:05,566 --> 00:59:08,566
on New Year's Eve.
1113
00:59:08,933 --> 00:59:11,183
They're hiring more police officers
1114
00:59:11,266 --> 00:59:13,350
because they think
there might be some riots.
1115
00:59:13,433 --> 00:59:15,350
Well, I hope those police officers don't,
1116
00:59:15,433 --> 00:59:17,050
you know, encourage the violence.
1117
00:59:17,133 --> 00:59:19,850
Oh, my, yes!
1118
00:59:19,933 --> 00:59:22,450
You bastard! That's better.
1119
00:59:22,533 --> 00:59:24,217
First thing that's gonna happen
when the electric goes off,
1120
00:59:24,300 --> 00:59:27,300
people are gonna panic,
because fear's gonna set in.
1121
00:59:31,866 --> 00:59:34,450
First the lights will go out in Asia.
1122
00:59:34,533 --> 00:59:37,533
And as the time slips by here
in the Midwest,
1123
00:59:37,766 --> 00:59:40,766
we'll see the lights go out
in New York City.
1124
00:59:43,366 --> 00:59:46,250
At the end of every major piece of time,
1125
00:59:46,333 --> 00:59:49,333
it's a paranoid and pathological time.
1126
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:52,800
Lots of weird stuff happens
all over the world.
1127
00:59:55,833 --> 00:59:57,583
We're turning over another 1,000 years,
1128
00:59:57,666 --> 01:00:00,666
it's not like we're turning over
a year, ten years, 100 years.
1129
01:00:00,966 --> 01:00:03,966
We're talking another 1,000.
We're talking the 21st century.
1130
01:00:04,633 --> 01:00:06,583
So it's, I mean...
1131
01:00:06,666 --> 01:00:09,350
I think more than anything,
you gotta celebrate it.
1132
01:00:09,433 --> 01:00:11,217
And as long as you have
a lot of people out there,
1133
01:00:11,300 --> 01:00:14,300
you can expect anything
and everything to happen.
1134
01:00:18,433 --> 01:00:20,017
Where you going?
-Home.
1135
01:00:20,100 --> 01:00:21,750
Did you have any idea about this?
1136
01:00:21,833 --> 01:00:22,917
-No. What is it?
-What is it?
1137
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:25,317
It's a concert, uh, for the millennium,
1138
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:28,400
-a group called Fish.
-Oh, jeez.
1139
01:00:32,366 --> 01:00:33,483
Good morning and welcome
1140
01:00:33,566 --> 01:00:35,450
to the very edge of the 21st century.
1141
01:00:35,533 --> 01:00:37,983
Good morning, you hearty souls,
I should say.
1142
01:00:38,066 --> 01:00:41,017
It's a little before 5:00 a.m.
here in Times Square.
1143
01:00:41,100 --> 01:00:43,483
And for the next 24 hours,
we're going to try to share
1144
01:00:43,566 --> 01:00:45,350
this extraordinary occasion
1145
01:00:45,433 --> 01:00:47,383
with much of the rest of the world.
1146
01:00:47,466 --> 01:00:50,466
So let us now go and have a look
at Kiribati in the Pacific,
1147
01:00:50,833 --> 01:00:52,650
the closest island, this morning,
1148
01:00:52,733 --> 01:00:54,150
to the International Date Line,
1149
01:00:54,233 --> 01:00:57,233
the first celebration of the millennium.
1150
01:01:21,333 --> 01:01:23,617
We're covering breaking news this morning.
1151
01:01:23,700 --> 01:01:26,083
We're getting word
out of Russia, out of Moscow,
1152
01:01:26,166 --> 01:01:28,283
that there is a big change in store
1153
01:01:28,366 --> 01:01:29,483
for the Russian leadership.
1154
01:01:29,566 --> 01:01:31,350
We go now to CNN's Eileen O'Connor,
1155
01:01:31,433 --> 01:01:33,450
who's standing by in Moscow
with the very latest on this.
1156
01:01:33,533 --> 01:01:34,617
Eileen.
1157
01:01:34,700 --> 01:01:37,700
Well, right now, Boris Yeltsin
has just announced
1158
01:01:38,133 --> 01:01:39,517
that he is going to cede
1159
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:41,250
the reins of power to the presidency
1160
01:01:41,333 --> 01:01:43,517
to his prime minister, Vladimir Putin,
1161
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:45,750
effective, he says, immediately.
1162
01:01:45,833 --> 01:01:47,850
Now, this does come as a surprise,
1163
01:01:47,933 --> 01:01:50,783
but Vladimir Putin is a very
popular prime minister,
1164
01:01:50,866 --> 01:01:53,517
he is known as a person
who wants a strong Russia.
1165
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:55,483
He took great pains, by the way, Leon,
1166
01:01:55,566 --> 01:01:58,566
to say that that does not mean
an overbearing, imperial Russia.
1167
01:01:58,933 --> 01:02:00,750
It means a stable Russia.
1168
01:02:00,833 --> 01:02:02,750
CNN's Eileen O'Connor reporting live
1169
01:02:02,833 --> 01:02:04,283
from Moscow. Colleen.
1170
01:02:04,366 --> 01:02:05,583
It is 18 hours
1171
01:02:05,666 --> 01:02:07,717
before the new year in New York City.
1172
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:09,483
Carol, what's going on
in the heart of the Big Apple
1173
01:02:09,566 --> 01:02:11,217
right now?
1174
01:02:11,300 --> 01:02:12,983
Colleen, what is about to happen
1175
01:02:13,066 --> 01:02:15,717
is that they're gonna light up
the new crystal ball
1176
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,800
and it will begin its ascension
up a 77-foot flagpole at the top
1177
01:02:21,233 --> 01:02:24,233
of the One Times Square building.
1178
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:27,783
There it goes,
1179
01:02:27,866 --> 01:02:30,650
this magnificent Waterford Crystal Ball.
1180
01:02:30,733 --> 01:02:33,217
They've pulled the switch.
1181
01:02:33,300 --> 01:02:36,300
They've lighted it up.
1182
01:02:36,833 --> 01:02:39,833
An elaborate hardware and software system
1183
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:44,400
descending into this square which is...
1184
01:02:44,933 --> 01:02:47,933
in itself all
about electronic hardware now,
1185
01:02:48,566 --> 01:02:51,566
selling products all over the world.
1186
01:02:53,900 --> 01:02:55,250
You're looking at a live picture
1187
01:02:55,333 --> 01:02:56,517
of Auckland, New Zealand,
1188
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:59,600
where the year 2000
is just about a minute away.
1189
01:03:02,133 --> 01:03:05,133
Now, New Zealand
is one of the first big tests
1190
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:08,400
of the possible effects
of the Y2K computer bug,
1191
01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:10,383
officials in the US
1192
01:03:10,466 --> 01:03:13,466
are watching New Zealand very closely.
1193
01:03:24,033 --> 01:03:25,117
Let there be light.
1194
01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:28,200
And there is light behind us.
The electricity is A-okay.
1195
01:03:35,900 --> 01:03:38,083
Inside the government's command center,
1196
01:03:38,166 --> 01:03:41,166
computer experts report
a stable situation so far,
1197
01:03:41,500 --> 01:03:43,317
with no Y2K glitches,
1198
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:46,017
starting with the US territory of Guam.
1199
01:03:46,100 --> 01:03:47,917
A plane landed and a baby was born,
1200
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:51,000
so that business continues as normal.
1201
01:03:53,333 --> 01:03:55,650
Across Japan, a million office workers
1202
01:03:55,733 --> 01:03:56,717
sat at their desks
1203
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:58,817
and nervously watched their computers
1204
01:03:58,900 --> 01:04:00,783
as midnight came and went.
1205
01:04:00,866 --> 01:04:03,750
There were minor problems
at two nuclear power plants.
1206
01:04:03,833 --> 01:04:06,833
Officials are probing for any Y2K bugs.
1207
01:04:07,100 --> 01:04:09,717
Neither plant's operation was affected.
1208
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:11,617
I am standing at ground zero,
1209
01:04:11,700 --> 01:04:14,150
in case of any accidental
nuclear missile launch.
1210
01:04:14,233 --> 01:04:15,617
And just a few miles from here,
1211
01:04:15,700 --> 01:04:18,700
Russian military officers
are sitting side by side
1212
01:04:18,866 --> 01:04:20,883
with American military officers,
1213
01:04:20,966 --> 01:04:23,966
working to fight a common enemy,
the Y2K menace.
1214
01:04:31,733 --> 01:04:33,283
While we are encouraged
1215
01:04:33,366 --> 01:04:35,983
by the positive reports thus far, uh,
1216
01:04:36,066 --> 01:04:37,650
we should all remember
1217
01:04:37,733 --> 01:04:40,733
that we have many miles
to go before we sleep.
1218
01:04:42,266 --> 01:04:44,750
For the time being, no news is good news.
1219
01:04:44,833 --> 01:04:47,833
So far, so good.
1220
01:04:48,166 --> 01:04:50,117
So far, so good on the Y2K Watch.
1221
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:53,200
Good news all around so far
in terms of that Y2K bug.
1222
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:58,200
So far, so good.
1223
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:00,683
You're looking live,
once again as the crowds
1224
01:05:00,766 --> 01:05:02,283
who gathered in Times Square
1225
01:05:02,366 --> 01:05:04,850
could reach two million people
before midnight tonight.
1226
01:05:04,933 --> 01:05:06,817
Obviously, they're not worried
about terrorism
1227
01:05:06,900 --> 01:05:09,900
or Y2K computer bugs.
1228
01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:14,683
The excitement
among the crowd is palpable.
1229
01:05:14,766 --> 01:05:17,483
This crowd has been shouting,
"Three, two, one,"
1230
01:05:17,566 --> 01:05:19,150
it seems every hour...
1231
01:05:19,233 --> 01:05:20,983
...as the millennium
has been breaking
1232
01:05:21,066 --> 01:05:22,417
all across the planet.
1233
01:05:22,500 --> 01:05:23,450
You'd think that by now
1234
01:05:23,533 --> 01:05:24,817
these people would be tuckered out,
1235
01:05:24,900 --> 01:05:27,900
but in fact, it seems
the excitement is growing.
1236
01:05:31,933 --> 01:05:34,117
A lot of very happy people right now.
1237
01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:36,150
Amazingly, a very small percentage
1238
01:05:36,233 --> 01:05:37,350
of these people are New Yorkers.
1239
01:05:37,433 --> 01:05:38,817
These people are from all over the world.
1240
01:05:38,900 --> 01:05:41,900
These folks, California,
Washington, what other states?
1241
01:05:42,133 --> 01:05:44,450
Florida, Oklahoma.
Unbelievable turnout.
1242
01:05:44,533 --> 01:05:45,583
You having a good time?
1243
01:05:45,666 --> 01:05:48,183
Oh! I'm lovin' it.
I am lovin' it.
1244
01:05:48,266 --> 01:05:50,850
The big moment is just a few hours away
1245
01:05:50,933 --> 01:05:52,483
from us here in the United States.
1246
01:05:52,566 --> 01:05:55,017
And while the rest of New York
is partying, maybe all...
1247
01:05:55,100 --> 01:05:57,283
They're all tourists out
in Times Square tonight,
1248
01:05:57,366 --> 01:05:59,617
the rest of Silicon Alley
and Wall Street and whatever,
1249
01:05:59,700 --> 01:06:01,050
the computer experts
1250
01:06:01,133 --> 01:06:04,133
will all be there at their terminals.
1251
01:06:13,233 --> 01:06:14,817
Liz in Escondido, California.
1252
01:06:14,900 --> 01:06:16,317
Hi, Liz.
-Hi.
1253
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:19,400
Um, I'd just like to observe
that initially,
1254
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:22,517
the Y2K kind of started off
as this global fear,
1255
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:25,550
maybe subconscious fear,
of technology, kind of like,
1256
01:06:25,633 --> 01:06:28,633
you know, Frankenstein had
at the rise of industrialism.
1257
01:06:28,833 --> 01:06:31,833
But what I see it turning into
is kind of just an awareness
1258
01:06:32,100 --> 01:06:34,517
of how connected everyone is globally.
1259
01:06:34,600 --> 01:06:36,150
And if you're tuned into the TVs at all,
1260
01:06:36,233 --> 01:06:39,233
I mean, we're watching
the celebrations, you know,
1261
01:06:39,700 --> 01:06:41,450
roll over each time zone
1262
01:06:41,533 --> 01:06:44,533
and it's really more, uh, kind of a global
1263
01:06:45,466 --> 01:06:46,850
love-in or something.
1264
01:06:46,933 --> 01:06:48,983
You think this is a unifying experience
1265
01:06:49,066 --> 01:06:51,250
versus a divisive one?
-Yeah. Yeah.
1266
01:06:51,333 --> 01:06:52,550
Because, uh, I...
1267
01:06:52,633 --> 01:06:55,633
We're all now more aware
of how connected we are.
1268
01:07:08,466 --> 01:07:10,117
This crowd size, as we can see
1269
01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:11,217
from the tenth floor
1270
01:07:11,300 --> 01:07:14,300
of the Marriott Marquis hotel
here, is big.
1271
01:07:15,433 --> 01:07:17,683
Interestingly enough, you at home
1272
01:07:17,766 --> 01:07:19,817
probably are in the majority this year
1273
01:07:19,900 --> 01:07:22,050
because they ran a poll recently
1274
01:07:22,133 --> 01:07:25,133
and Americans staying home
this year are 72 percent.
1275
01:07:30,100 --> 01:07:31,650
Freakin' New Year, dude!
1276
01:07:31,733 --> 01:07:34,733
Freakin' New Year!
-Yeah.
1277
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:36,883
Are you taking a photograph or a video?
1278
01:07:36,966 --> 01:07:38,683
It does both.
1279
01:07:38,766 --> 01:07:40,850
Is that digital?
-Uh-huh.
1280
01:07:40,933 --> 01:07:43,683
Yeah. So it takes a picture.
I can send it to you.
1281
01:07:43,766 --> 01:07:45,350
It's a video!
1282
01:07:45,433 --> 01:07:48,433
Happy New Year!
-Happy New Year!
1283
01:07:49,966 --> 01:07:51,617
I feel like part of the global village.
1284
01:07:51,700 --> 01:07:53,817
I feel connected to the rest of humanity.
1285
01:07:53,900 --> 01:07:56,900
I'm ready for the aliens to land.
1286
01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:03,283
What is your New Year's resolution?
1287
01:08:03,366 --> 01:08:05,483
I don't know!
1288
01:08:05,566 --> 01:08:08,566
My New Year's resolution
is to collect all 100...
1289
01:08:09,766 --> 01:08:11,817
all the Pokémon cards
1290
01:08:11,900 --> 01:08:14,317
that they've ever came out with.
Whoo!
1291
01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:17,400
My New Year's resolution
would be to study more and...
1292
01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:19,682
be a better example
1293
01:08:19,765 --> 01:08:21,050
for the people that are around me.
1294
01:08:21,133 --> 01:08:23,050
I'm doing everything right,
don't need to change anything,
1295
01:08:23,133 --> 01:08:24,650
just even keel.
1296
01:08:24,733 --> 01:08:27,182
Yeah, live life to its fullest, of course,
1297
01:08:27,265 --> 01:08:30,150
and to just take life for what it's worth,
1298
01:08:30,233 --> 01:08:31,383
a wonderful gift.
1299
01:08:31,466 --> 01:08:34,466
2000 is gonna be wonderful,
I'm looking forward to it.
1300
01:08:34,765 --> 01:08:37,749
Um, there's nothing I want more right now
1301
01:08:37,832 --> 01:08:40,517
than for the entire world to explode.
1302
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:41,783
Well, here it comes.
1303
01:08:41,866 --> 01:08:43,283
Here it is.
-11:51.
1304
01:08:43,366 --> 01:08:45,650
Digital bug.
-Here it is.
1305
01:08:45,733 --> 01:08:47,717
Cheers.
-Happy millennium!
1306
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:49,550
Cheers!
1307
01:08:49,633 --> 01:08:51,450
Especially at the end of the century,
1308
01:08:51,533 --> 01:08:53,883
it's always good to take stock.
1309
01:08:53,966 --> 01:08:56,850
We split the atom, invented jazz and rock,
1310
01:08:56,933 --> 01:08:59,617
launched airplanes and landed on the moon,
1311
01:08:59,700 --> 01:09:02,249
concocted a general theory of relativity,
1312
01:09:02,332 --> 01:09:03,950
devised the transistor,
1313
01:09:04,033 --> 01:09:06,249
and figured out
how to etch millions of them
1314
01:09:06,332 --> 01:09:08,283
on tiny microchips.
1315
01:09:08,366 --> 01:09:11,366
We discovered penicillin
and the structure of DNA,
1316
01:09:11,566 --> 01:09:14,566
defeated fascism and communism,
developed cinema and television,
1317
01:09:16,300 --> 01:09:19,300
built fantastic highways,
and wired the world.
1318
01:09:20,133 --> 01:09:22,517
We ponder these things in joy,
1319
01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:24,517
but also in prayerful humility.
1320
01:09:24,600 --> 01:09:26,550
As we now move into the challenge
1321
01:09:26,633 --> 01:09:29,617
and the danger of a new unknown.
1322
01:09:29,700 --> 01:09:32,682
The dawn of the 21st century.
1323
01:09:32,765 --> 01:09:35,517
Okay, now everyone sit like this...
1324
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:38,316
...and wait for the lights
to go out.
1325
01:09:38,399 --> 01:09:39,883
I know, this is shit...
1326
01:09:39,966 --> 01:09:42,283
What if everything
just went out right now?
1327
01:09:42,366 --> 01:09:45,366
Here we go.
1328
01:09:45,733 --> 01:09:47,883
You were wise
to stay at home. In one minute,
1329
01:09:47,966 --> 01:09:50,966
the ball will drop
and you will see pandemonium.
1330
01:09:56,100 --> 01:09:59,100
The ball is beginning to move.
They can feel it.
1331
01:10:08,966 --> 01:10:11,966
Happy New Year!
1332
01:10:23,633 --> 01:10:24,883
Well, you gotta watch the show.
1333
01:10:24,966 --> 01:10:27,950
I think they're gonna do something.
1334
01:10:28,033 --> 01:10:31,033
Hi!
1335
01:10:32,333 --> 01:10:35,333
The lights are gonna go on,
everybody's gonna go crazy.
1336
01:10:35,433 --> 01:10:38,433
Behind the clock.
1337
01:10:39,866 --> 01:10:40,983
Ten seconds.
1338
01:10:41,066 --> 01:10:44,066
Nine, eight, seven, six, five,
1339
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:48,600
four, three, two, one.
1340
01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:54,400
Happy 2000!
1341
01:11:19,466 --> 01:11:21,817
It's the biggest thrill of my life
1342
01:11:21,900 --> 01:11:24,900
and I made so many new friends
to carry on the next millennium.
1343
01:11:25,033 --> 01:11:26,050
It's awesome!
1344
01:11:26,133 --> 01:11:27,583
In this crowd?
-Oh, yeah.
1345
01:11:27,666 --> 01:11:28,817
The people are so nice.
1346
01:11:28,900 --> 01:11:30,817
There's such good energy about this crowd.
1347
01:11:30,900 --> 01:11:32,183
Nothing bad at all.
1348
01:11:32,266 --> 01:11:33,650
We didn't fall asleep.
1349
01:11:33,733 --> 01:11:36,517
They're a good crowd, best crowd yet.
1350
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:39,600
This is disgusting.
1351
01:11:40,266 --> 01:11:43,266
Oh, Louise!
1352
01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:49,400
Happy New Year!
1353
01:11:49,866 --> 01:11:52,517
The lights are on, Bill.
1354
01:11:52,600 --> 01:11:54,250
I know.
Everything's still working.
1355
01:11:54,333 --> 01:11:57,333
Everything's still working!
1356
01:12:00,966 --> 01:12:03,517
All right, is that enough
pictures of the cake, you guys?
1357
01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:05,517
B-roll of the cake, right?
That's right.
1358
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:06,950
What do you hope for the New Year?
1359
01:12:07,033 --> 01:12:10,033
Peace in the world.
Peace. Yeah, that's all.
1360
01:12:10,933 --> 01:12:12,617
-Wave to the camera.
-Say, "Happy New Year."
1361
01:12:12,700 --> 01:12:13,850
Wave! Happy New Year.
1362
01:12:13,933 --> 01:12:14,950
Wave, Carol.
1363
01:12:15,033 --> 01:12:17,250
They're tired.
Oh, thank you.
1364
01:12:17,333 --> 01:12:20,333
Happy New Year's to everybody.
1365
01:13:13,500 --> 01:13:16,500
This is a very new time for us.
1366
01:13:18,700 --> 01:13:21,700
We were confronted
by these interdependent systems
1367
01:13:21,900 --> 01:13:24,900
we had created and realized
that we are dependent on people
1368
01:13:25,900 --> 01:13:28,717
we don't even know.
1369
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:31,350
And that's the great lesson from Y2K.
1370
01:13:31,433 --> 01:13:33,250
That no one can go through any
1371
01:13:33,333 --> 01:13:36,333
of the current dilemmas facing us alone.
1372
01:13:44,233 --> 01:13:47,233
The news.
1373
01:14:00,233 --> 01:14:03,233
Nothing happens.
1374
01:14:03,700 --> 01:14:05,217
Well, we made it.
1375
01:14:05,300 --> 01:14:07,483
The dire predictions
of the last several months
1376
01:14:07,566 --> 01:14:10,566
dissolved in a potent mix of joy
and celebration
1377
01:14:10,666 --> 01:14:12,617
all around the globe last night,
1378
01:14:12,700 --> 01:14:15,700
and that dreaded bug didn't bite.
1379
01:14:25,466 --> 01:14:28,466
We feel that we have come to a new planet,
1380
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:32,817
uh, to a new planet
1381
01:14:32,900 --> 01:14:35,900
where there's peace,
and there's no confusion.
1382
01:14:55,333 --> 01:14:57,317
Some people are questioning now whether
1383
01:14:57,400 --> 01:14:58,383
all of this was overkill.
1384
01:14:58,466 --> 01:14:59,950
What do you have to say about that?
1385
01:15:00,033 --> 01:15:02,150
I say that no one who worked
on this problem thinks that.
1386
01:15:02,233 --> 01:15:05,233
They all understand,
after several years of work
1387
01:15:05,566 --> 01:15:07,483
and spending hundreds
of millions of dollars,
1388
01:15:07,566 --> 01:15:09,350
that we averted a major disaster
1389
01:15:09,433 --> 01:15:11,417
by successfully attacking the problem.
1390
01:15:11,500 --> 01:15:14,250
You said today that this may be
your last briefing.
1391
01:15:14,333 --> 01:15:15,883
Are things going that well?
1392
01:15:15,966 --> 01:15:17,183
Things are actually going very well.
1393
01:15:17,266 --> 01:15:19,050
And we're delighted with the progress
1394
01:15:19,133 --> 01:15:20,417
that's been made.
1395
01:15:20,500 --> 01:15:22,817
It now appears very clear
that the United States
1396
01:15:22,900 --> 01:15:25,717
and most of the world, in fact,
all of world at this time
1397
01:15:25,800 --> 01:15:27,250
have made a successful transition
1398
01:15:27,333 --> 01:15:30,333
into the 21st century.
1399
01:15:37,266 --> 01:15:39,850
So now that Y2K and other anxieties
1400
01:15:39,933 --> 01:15:41,183
have subsided,
1401
01:15:41,266 --> 01:15:43,417
the time has come when at least
some Americans
1402
01:15:43,500 --> 01:15:46,150
will actually start to sit up
and take notice of the fact
1403
01:15:46,233 --> 01:15:48,983
that there's
a presidential campaign going on
1404
01:15:49,066 --> 01:15:52,066
and the first big contest
is coming up fast.
1405
01:15:54,300 --> 01:15:56,117
The man who warned us about Y2K
1406
01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:57,317
says it's a lesson about
1407
01:15:57,400 --> 01:15:59,550
how much we depend on technology,
1408
01:15:59,633 --> 01:16:02,633
and how it's not as infallible
as we'd like to think.
1409
01:16:03,300 --> 01:16:05,350
I don't believe that we as a human race,
1410
01:16:05,433 --> 01:16:08,433
learn from our mistakes.
We don't learn from history.
1411
01:16:09,300 --> 01:16:10,217
Every 100 years,
1412
01:16:10,300 --> 01:16:12,783
we'll have exactly
the same type of situation.
1413
01:16:12,866 --> 01:16:15,866
And it'll be someone else
raising the alarm.
1414
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:20,000
That people all over the planet
could experience the same events
1415
01:16:20,200 --> 01:16:21,550
at the same time,
1416
01:16:21,633 --> 01:16:23,350
would have been impossible for anyone
1417
01:16:23,433 --> 01:16:26,433
to imagine 1,000 years ago, even 100.
1418
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:28,750
Yet the growing interconnectedness
1419
01:16:28,833 --> 01:16:31,583
of the world today,
thanks to a global economy
1420
01:16:31,666 --> 01:16:33,817
and technologies like the internet,
1421
01:16:33,900 --> 01:16:36,900
is more than just a mark
of how far we've come,
1422
01:16:37,300 --> 01:16:40,300
it's the key to understanding
where we're going.
1423
01:16:42,966 --> 01:16:44,650
When you talk about the millennium,
1424
01:16:44,733 --> 01:16:46,717
you sure mean something
different than most of us.
1425
01:16:46,800 --> 01:16:49,800
Well, a millennium
is such a small slice of time
1426
01:16:50,566 --> 01:16:52,383
in the spectrum of the universe.
1427
01:16:52,466 --> 01:16:54,250
We've got the big bang
1428
01:16:54,333 --> 01:16:56,517
happening 13 billion years ago,
1429
01:16:56,600 --> 01:16:59,050
you know, what's 1,000 years
between friends?
1430
01:16:59,133 --> 01:17:00,117
The timeline that we create
1431
01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:02,183
is about the length of a football field.
1432
01:17:02,266 --> 01:17:03,683
The thickness of hair,
1433
01:17:03,766 --> 01:17:05,250
on the sheet that you're holding up,
1434
01:17:05,333 --> 01:17:08,017
represents all of cultural history
1435
01:17:08,100 --> 01:17:11,100
of human beings on Earth.
1436
01:17:13,866 --> 01:17:15,750
Instead of the world ending,
1437
01:17:15,833 --> 01:17:18,617
it's going to kind of begin
all over again,
1438
01:17:18,700 --> 01:17:20,617
but not literally.
1439
01:17:20,700 --> 01:17:23,700
Not like another big bang
or whatever caused the universe.
1440
01:17:26,266 --> 01:17:28,250
But like...
1441
01:17:28,333 --> 01:17:31,317
I think it's gonna be like
a fresh start for everybody
1442
01:17:31,400 --> 01:17:33,617
to try and get along.
1443
01:17:33,700 --> 01:17:36,700
We're gonna start to dive into the...
1444
01:17:38,100 --> 01:17:41,100
to dive into the world
of technology and...
1445
01:17:43,300 --> 01:17:44,950
try to survive there.
1446
01:17:45,033 --> 01:17:47,817
If we keep digging and using all this oil,
1447
01:17:47,900 --> 01:17:49,417
plastic, et cetera, et cetera,
1448
01:17:49,500 --> 01:17:52,383
I mean, how far
are these supplies gonna go?
1449
01:17:52,466 --> 01:17:54,983
You can't assure
that they'll be here forever.
1450
01:17:55,066 --> 01:17:57,483
Think of us...
1451
01:17:57,566 --> 01:18:00,117
as a midpoint...
1452
01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:03,200
between no tolerance...
1453
01:18:04,500 --> 01:18:07,500
and between very...
1454
01:18:08,033 --> 01:18:09,550
loving everyone.
1455
01:18:09,633 --> 01:18:12,633
This hasn't been a great century.
1456
01:18:13,633 --> 01:18:16,633
Fix the world, don't screw it up.
111894
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