- Paperback: 672 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 edition (25 Jan 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130205192
- ISBN-13: 978-0130205193
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,262,335 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Time Bomb 2000 has become a world-wide bestseller because it doesn't just tell you that there's a Y2K crisis on the way: it spells out how to evaluate your personal risks -- and what you can do about them. As the crunch draws closer, this new edition is essential reading for everyone. Based on the absolute latest information, you'll learn what problems are likely to occur, how they will impact individuals and society, and what you can do to prepare. You'll find updated coverage of virtually every major aspect of society, including communications, power distribution, transportation, finance, travel, medicine, social services, education and employment - with expert assessments of the probabilities -- and consequences -- of failure. Best of all, you'll also find practical contingency plans and fallback positions if the worst happens.
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2051j-2
The New York Times Bestseller!
Over 200,000 copies in print!
The #1 Year 2000 action guide for everyone—now completely updated! @ BCTEXT = Saturday, January 1, 2000. Suddenly, nothing works. Not your phones, not the cash machine, not even your fancy new VCR. All because of "minuscule" computer programming errors someone made decades ago.
Science fiction? Almost all computer experts agree, it's very, very possible.
Whether or not you own or use a computer, virtually every aspect of your life now depends on them: communications, electricity, transportation, finance, medicine, your job, the government... you name it. What if those computers stop working for a day? A month? A year? Time Bomb 2000 tells you the odds, based on up-to-the-minute information—and offers complete guidance on how you can prepare!
Time Bomb 2000 is co-authored by Edward Yourdon, editor of Cutter IT Journal and one of the world's leading authorities on software development. Few people have a clearer understanding of the Year 2000 problem—and why it's proving so difficult to solve. Realistic, practical, and terrifying, Time Bomb 2000 is the #1 book for everyone who wants to survive the Year 2000 computer crisis.
- Will your bank open?
- Will your money be there?
- Will social security checks arrive?
- Will there be electricity? Food? Water?
- Will your PC work?
- Will your car run?
- Will medical devices work?
- Above all, what can you do to prepare?
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Yourdons don't claim to know what will happen in late 1999 and early 2000, which affords them more credibility than anyone who does claims to 'know'. This book is an in depth look at many of the things which COULD happen, along with general advice on how to minimize the effects on your family.
It is quite long and somewhat dry. If you are seriously interested in Y2K, it is a great introduction to the problem. If you want to know more about Y2K, skimming parts of this would be of benefit. For details on preparation, this is not the book. It is a good first book on the subject, but should not be your last or only book on Y2K. If you know nothing about the problem, you may want to start with the appendices.
The list of suggested books is just that, a list. The web site list has a little description of each site and is thus more useful.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Ed Yourdon does not know what he is talking about. His examples of Y2K disasters proceed entirely from made-up scenarios of doom and not from any understanding of the underlying processes and code. His examples are ludicrous; absolutely laughable.
The basic premise, that Y2K bugs will cause widespread crashes, is silly enough (try setting the clock on your computer past 2000 and running all your programs; nothing odd happens), but the idea that any computer's crashing will cause the downfall of civilization is outlandish. Computers crash all the time -- there are already processes and infrastructure to deal with it. A whole lot of computers crashing at once could conceivably make things annoying for a while, but more in the nature of slowed-down than stopped.
Here's an example: can the airlines run without computers? Yes. They have complete procedures in place to issue tickets, take tickets, move baggage, etc. without any computers involved. They did it in the 50's;! they can still do it today. It's just slower and more prone to error. Some Airbus planes are dependent on their computers for certain operations, but even they have manual fallbacks. They're not going to fall out of the sky, and they're not going to crash in 2000; it's unlikely that airplane computers pay attention to the date at all.
I cannot stress enough: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. Don't put another dollar into the hands of someone who is uninformed and milking the hype machine for all it's worth. Check it out from the library if you must.
Format:Paperback
This book provided a great introduction to Y2K and some of the scenarios that we should all be considering to prepare ourselves for the POTENTIAL outcomes and interruptions in our daily lives. All of you who have given this book a poor review should consider yourselves lucky to be so informed as to consider this book boring. I can tell you from personal experience, the rest of the world isn't nearly as informed and prepared as Americans are. This book provides many resources which are great starting points and can be expanded to develop a personal disaster plan for anything (i.e. floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.). Would recommend this book to those who are not quite so computer literate.
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