The Millennium Bug: How to Survive the Coming Chaos - Hardcover

Hyatt, Michael S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0895263343 ISBN 13: 9780895263346

Publisher: Regnery Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

The Y2K bomb is ticking.  Here's the survival guide you can't afford to be without.

Today computers are involved in every part of our lives, from electrical power, to banks, to emergency medical service. But none of us has ever experienced the kind of worldwide computer crash that will result on account of the Millennium Bug. When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, 2000, computer systems all over the world will fail--and, as author Michael Hyatt shows, the results could be disastrous.

You could lose electricity--not just for a couple of hours or days, but for weeks, months, or even years.
Phones could stop working, making it impossible to contact 911 or the police.
Military defense systems could crumble.
Banks around the world could fail, leaving you unable to access funds and eventually spawning a global depression.

Packed with up-to-the-minute information on the problem and practical suggestions to ensure survival, The Millennium Bug provides an easy-to-understand plan for securing important documents, stockpiling food and household goods, creating new forms of currency, and more. As Hyatt shows, we can protect ourselves--but time is running short, and we need to start now.

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Review

This account outlines an ominous view of how computer systems will be able to deal with the year 2000 problem (Y2K). Power grids go dark, emergency services descend into chaos, credit cards die, and the industrialised world is reduced to hunting and gathering in Hyatt's millennium nightmare.

With lots of quotes popping out from the pages and plenty of bulleted lists, The Millennium Bug is written in typical manager-book style. It's heavy with case studies, news items and endnote references to the author's sources. Hyatt's purpose is to alert technology decision makers to a plausible worst-case Y2K scenario and to motivate them to do something about it. The author presents a range of possible developments, from mere annoyance with consumer services to widespread starvation as a result of infrastructure breakdown. Hyatt also foresees a plague of lawsuits filed by shareholders, the families of deceased patients and swarms of other people harmed by Y2K failures.

Hyatt's advice: move to a small town with a volunteer fire department, stockpile food, secure access to a reliable source of fresh water, and buy a gun and ammunition for fending off looters. The winter of 1999-2000 will be a hard one, Hyatt predicts, and the crisis may last a long time indeed--have reading material on hand. --David Wall, Amazon.com

From the Author

No Third-Party Compensation
Because it has come up a couple of times, I want to make it clear that I have not received, am not receiving, and will not receive any compensation from any of the companies I recommend in the book. (I think I only recommend two: a coin dealer and a food supplier.) My intention was simply to make it easier for the reader to locate at least one reputable source to meet his or her emergency preparedness needs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0895263343
• ISBN 13: 9780895263346
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1