Customer Reviews

The Millennium Bug

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3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(14)

 

 

I certainly feel like a jack a**. I was a sheep like the rest of the country losing sleep over the Y2K situation. I bought the book after hearing the author on The Kevin and Bean show, read it, and became more fearful of what might happen. The author capitolized on fear and won. He got my money. I would not purchase a book from this author again. Looks like my book will be a good firestater.

In a way, it's worth reading, if only as an example of a really horrendous prediction.

Y2K came and went, nothing much happened, and our infrastructure didn't get fouled up any more than usual.

Which is what a lot of us predicted all along.

This is a book that likes to seed "Fear Uncertainty and Doubt". The author is not a computer specialist, programmer, scientist or information management expert. His knowledge of the industry is at best questionable. Read his bio and see for yourself. He is involved in Y2K consulting. He does profit from other's fear of the Y2K. Spend your time and money elsewhere.

NOT!

This book was full of half-truths, outdated information (even when first published) and scare tactics. He obviously tried to use the uncertainty of y2k for his own financial gain. Do yourself a favor and avoid books by the doom & gloom camp. They'll be back with another catastrophe (e.g. asteroid, aliens, disease, etc.) pushing their books again. Don't bite their bait.

This book paints a doom & gloom picture of the future and capitalizes on the fear of the unknown. The real message of events that run counter to this book is that our infrastructure is stronger than anyone predicted and there is a reason to be optimistic about the future!

Terrible writing! Who is this guy? The information could have been interesting, but it was blandly conveyed. Don't waste your money. Charmin is much softer.

This books can provide you the idea a number of people could react too predicted stories of future. Like all predictions, there are not guaranteed occur! Too many words providing negative effects to this incident are given in this book, which could and did cost a lot of money.

It gets 3 stars for providing some comedy to a reader today!

Part says there is still a chance that after decade after 2000, Y2K could still be around!!!

I've skimmed the book at various places on the web (wouldn't dream of buying it). I presume 2012 will put us in a similar place. In fact, I'm thinking about writing my own scaremongering book about the coming apocalypse. Any publishers interested? I promise to pander to the interests of the Conservative Right, as well as the NRA and ATF.

Any apologies for your miserable miasma of false prophecies or are you too busy laughing as you count the hard earned dollars of the gullible who looked to you as some sort of a prophet? False prophet is more like it.

Update as of February 6, 2003: Some readers have tried protecting Hyatt's false prophecy by saying "It ain't over" (see comment made on Jan. 8, 2000). Well folks, the fat lady has sung. It's over! :)

Jan 3, 2000: Well, the author may have made what one reviewer called a "convincing argument," but all that shows is how easily some of us are duped. The author, like much of the press, has tapped into our ignorance and gulliblity, and tried to scare the bejesus out of us. He should be ashamed! The millennium bug was averted not because of scare mongers like this so-called expert, but because the marketplace realized there would be a financial penalty for not fixing things. It's no more complicated than that. So have we learned anything, boys and girls?