<nettime> why2k (druckrey), y(2)2k (lebkowsky), y52j (guderian)

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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:52:37 -0400
From: Timothy Druckrey <druckrey@interport.net>
Subject: WhY2K

Alistair Cooke:

"Y2K -- probably the most ominous logo, the most threatening symbol to
human life since E=MC2..."

I'm organizing an evening for DEAF about accident and possibility and
including a Y2K component. Surely the proliferating web sites devoted
(literally and figuratively) to the issues (pragmatically and
pathologically) are easily available.

We're looking for creative work being done.

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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 10:52:50 -0500
From: jon lebkowsky <jon.lebkowsky@wholefoods.com>
Subject: Y Y Y2K

Verzola's piece about the "millennium bug" assumes that no one envisioned
the problem and that little work's been done so far to correct the problem
where it exists. This is simply not the case.  Y2K discussions have been
going on for several years now, and much work has been done to reduce
exposure.  My own opinion is that the worst-case disaster scenarios are
shaggy apocalypse stories.  I suggest that we focus more on the
environmental problems addressed so creatively by Bruce Sterling in his
Viridian Manifesto (which is, incidentally, online at
http://www.well.com/conf/mirrorshades/viridian.html).

Jon Lebkowsky
jonl@well.com

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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 10:24:39 -0400
From: carlg@pop.net (Carl Guderian)
Subject: Re: <nettime> Y2K stuff

> <excerpted from>
>> http://webserv1.startribune.com/cgi-bin/stOnLine/article?thisSlug=Y2K13
>>
>> Published Sunday, September 13, 1998
>>
>> Jan. 1, 2000, isn't only 'doomsdate'
>>
>> Steve Woodward / Newhouse News Service
> <...>

And don't forget the Year 52 Jaguar problem. The Mayan calendar rolls over
on Christmas Eve, 2012 and the Mayan gods will return. I understand the
geniuses behind "Jurassic Park" are trying to clone long-dead priests and
revive William Burroughs, one of the last living experts on Mayan science
of telepathy, in hopes of communicating with them (by thinking in
hieroglyphs, of course).

Not a troll.
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