We can all look back a dozen years now and chuckle at the way we fretted over Y2K, with our silly fears about how everything that involved a computer might grind to a halt on January 1, 2000, sending us back several decades, technologically speaking. In the end, Y2K turned out to be a bit of a non-event. Planes stayed in the air. The lights stayed on. No one rioted. But that success belies the truth … The reason things went so smoothly is not because Y2K was a non-event, but because a lot of people spent a lot of money doing what needed to be done to be sure networks, devices, utilities, transportation, and everything else was ready for the change. More...