The Millennium Meltdown: The Year 2000 Computer Crisis

Charles R. Crawford, a former associate professor of computer science at
York University, is a computer-programming and mathematics consultant.

The Millennium Meltdown begins with two chapters on the origins of the
Y2K computer problem and continues with eight chapters on how various
sectors of the U.S. economy have failed to deal with the problem. The
three chapters that follow (“A Cashless Society,” “A Secret Agenda
for World Government,” and “Living in a Surveillance Society”)
describe aspects of society and government that, in the author’s
opinion, make the Y2K crisis particularly dangerous. The book concludes
with four chapters that outline strategies for dealing with the crisis
in particular areas of life. There are appendixes and a bibliography,
but no index.

Although the author is Canadian, nearly all the examples, references,
and resource addresses are American. Jeffrey, who has written 10 books
on religious topics, views the Y2K problem not from a technical
perspective but rather from the perspective of a born-again Christian.
He sees the approaching computer “meltdown” as the fulfilment of
biblical prophecies. Of course, the lack of any widespread problems in
the first month of 2000 flies in the face of the author’s
expectations. On the other hand, he has no more cause for embarrassment
than those writers who made similar apocalyptic predictions, but on
technical rather than religious grounds.