The key point I took out from it was the mass unemployment that may occur from AI in a short space of time, which would cause all sorts of societal problems. Interestingly, I heard on the radio this morning that there may be a trial of Universal Basic Income in England soon, if funding can be...
The Millenium Bug did exist, it was just vastly overblown. Essentially, if your systems were not using date comparisons, you were not affected. If you were using date comparisons but were using 4 digit years, you were not affected.
Many legacy systems only used 2 character years so if those...