- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (22 Dec 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130214965
- ISBN-13: 978-0130214966
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 14 x 4.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,344,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Why I wrote yet another Y2K book
I never asked to get into Y2K. I was drafted, and in Washington DC of all places. Strange things happen there. I got dragged into Y2K at the end of 1996, and by the time I left DC in August of 1998, I had talked about Y2K in a coference in Beirut (late February 1998, while the US was ramping up for an [aborted] attack on Iraq); I had given private Y2K presentations to the US intelligence community, the World Bank, and Congressional staff members; and I had testified on three separate occasions before Congress. I then fled DC and tried to get back to my original career (developing and deploying information technology, esp. object technology).
I never asked to get into Y2K. I was drafted, and in Washington DC of all places. Strange things happen there. I got dragged into Y2K at the end of 1996, and by the time I left DC in August of 1998, I had talked about Y2K in a coference in Beirut (late February 1998, while the US was ramping up for an [aborted] attack on Iraq); I had given private Y2K presentations to the US intelligence community, the World Bank, and Congressional staff members; and I had testified on three separate occasions before Congress. I then fled DC and tried to get back to my original career (developing and deploying information technology, esp. object technology).
There is truly, however, no rest for the wicked, and no escape for the semi-knowledgeable. Jeffrey Pepper, editor-in-chief at Prentice Hall, suggested a Y2K book with an 'empowerment' approach. That was a welcome change from many of the books on the market, so I rushed in (as in "____s rush in" and "a ____ and his time are soon parted").
I wanted to accomplish three things in the book, all in reaction to the simplistic and often wildly inaccurate Y2K coverage in the media. First, I wanted to explain all the factors behind the Y2K problem in the first place. Second, I wanted to lay out a common-sense approach to personal and family preparedness that anyone can adapt to her or his circumstances and that makes sense even outside of the context of Y2K. And third, I wanted to lay out a broad range of possible Y2K scenarios (I offer 11) to show how much more exists than the "bump in the road vs. end of the world" extremes that usually are presented.
I hope you find the book useful, or at least entertaining. Feel free to drop me a line and kvetch. ..bruce..
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Format:Paperback
Webster offers good suggestions on preparing, and does a decent job explaining the how and the whys of Y2K. Especially thought provoking are the different scenerios and the odds of any given one happening. Spends way too much time pontificating and discussing the politics of the subject. If this were to be left out, the book would be halved, with concise information
Format:Paperback
Maybe the best y2k book. Bruce Webster is not only a year 2000 expert, he's also a good writer, with a warm, friendly and clear style. This well-organized book makes a large, confusing subject easy to understand. Good, detailed recommendations on "how to prepare." And, like all good books, it's a "good read." Buy it.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
excellent and well-written
13 Jan 1999
Format:Paperback
Maybe the best y2k book. Bruce Webster is not only a year 2000 expert, he's also a good writer, with a warm, friendly and clear style. This well-organized book makes a large, confusing subject easy to understand. Good, detailed recommendations on "how to prepare." And, like all good books, it's a "good read." Buy it.
Good info once you get past all the unnecessary 'chatter'
23 Mar 1999
Format:Paperback
Webster offers good suggestions on preparing, and does a decent job explaining the how and the whys of Y2K. Especially thought provoking are the different scenerios and the odds of any given one happening. Spends way too much time pontificating and discussing the politics of the subject. If this were to be left out, the book would be halved, with concise information
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Just a joke
3 Nov 1999
Format:Paperback
I only want to buy this book for a joke, so that twenty years later, when nothing has happened because of the Y2K bug, I will be able to show people that book and say how gullible people were back in '99. I think it's funny to read a book like that that tells you to fill your house with canned food for a disaster that doesn't exist.
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