Should this be in the transportation section? 8-)

I've had this gut feeling for awhile that somehow "The Titanic" being a big movie a year ago and the approaching Y2K problem is somehow more than a coincidence. In one really practical way, there is a connection.

We hit the iceberg in 1997. That was the last year a big Y2K project could get started soon enough to be finished. In January 1999, the public will realize the ship is sinking. It sinks in January of 2000.

The deaths on the Titanic did not have to happen, but they did due to denial and greed. Check out this link about the Titanic and Y2K:

http://www.year2000.com/archive/wreid1.html

The sinking of the Titanic did not have to happen, and neither did Y2K. The good news is, there's no mad rush for the lifeboats--yet. Get a seat while you still can!

-- Kevin (mixesmusic@worldnet.att.net), December 14, 1998

Answers

Kevin,

The article does quite a good job with the Titanic analogy. Ill send it to some friends.

Problem is, its also too small, and more of an isolated event, with help coming from the outside. We need a bigger one, maybe a parallel analogy, so people can also get the spaceship earth scope of the Y2K problem. I just dont know what that is, yet. Ideas?

I think it comes down to, what will either sink us or swim us, aside from preparation, is power -- the electrical grid. Thats the hidden iceberg. It makes all the difference between muddle and mayhem.

My question is At what point, next year, will we know that it wont, or that it will work?

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), December 15, 1998.

y2k Titanic dialog:

Scene 1: The Launch Shipowner Clinton: "This is the greatest culture ever. We're on a roll. I don't care about some little bug..hey, who's that cute little stewardess over there?" Passenger (First Class) Milne: "Butthead."

Scene 2: Captain Ed: "Uh, we're heading for an iceberg." Shipowner Clinton: "Shut up and steer. I'll pass a law that makes icebergs illegal." Engineer Gore: "Maybe we should do something anyway, just to make the passengers happy." Shipowner Clinton: "If you really insist. And make sure my personal lifeboat is working."

Scene 3: Jack: "I love you." Rose: "Then why are you going to let me get out of a lifeboat, and almost die for you? And what are we doing HERE?" Lookout Ed: "ICEBERG!!" Watch Officer Koskinen: "Okay, turn left. No, turn right. Hey, can this thing submerge?" Master-at-arms North: "Hey, will this finally be my opportunity to shoot people?"

Scene 4: Lookout Ed: "Sir, there's a hole in the ship. We're going to sink." Captain Clinton: "No, we can't sink. I'll pass a law against it. Besides, this is the Titanic. Whoever heard of the Titanic sinking?" Watch Officer Koskinen: "Well said, sir." Captain Clinton: "See, John's doing all the work with only 3 people under him!! The American spirit will prevail. Nothing will challenge the American way of life, mom, or apple pie. That reminds me, I'm hungry." Master-at-Arms North: "You're a NWO conspiracy theorist working on behalf of the mermaids. When we sink, you're going to become a prince of the mermaids. The mermaids put the iceberg there because they want to enslave the rest of us." Passenger Milne: "Butthead."

Scene 5: Engineer Infomagic: "Hey, there's water down here! And it's wet!! This systematically proves..that we're going to sink! And that our sinking will wipe out enough rich people to knock us back into the Dark

-- Leo (leo_champion@hotmail.com), December 15, 1998.

LOL Leo! Well done my man, well done! :-)

Bobbi New!!! PowerPoint slide show -- "Y2k: Where are we now? Where are we going?" Check it out at http://www.buzzbyte.com/

-- Bobbi (bobbia@slic.com), December 15, 1998.