[107353] in Cypherpunks
RE: COMMENTARY: Why You Will Survive Y2K
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew James Gering)
Tue Jan 12 04:34:32 1999
From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
To: "Cypherpunks (E-mail)" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 01:22:05 -0800
Reply-To: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
Well Y2K does represent a great competitive and entrepreneurial opportunity
for those to capitalize on the unreadiness of others. Certainly the more
competitive markets have the greatest incentive to be ready, and the least
potential disruption to consumers except in case of high switching costs.
Problem is we don't have a free market. There are many monopolistic services
could be disrupted, and for which it is *illegal* for a competitor to simply
jump in, and I have no doubt the government will blame Y2K woes on the
free-market and jump in to save the day, and make problems worse.
But honestly I don't worry much at all about computer systems, and I *am* a
programmer. I worry about people and government.
Matt
