Can you imagine our U.S. Congress compromising? Our president signing the compromise against the interests of his largest donor base? Well, “Year 2000 - The Inside Story of Y2K Panic and the Greatest Cooperative Effort Ever” describes such a Washington scenario.
The Y2K millennium computer software date crisis (two-digit-year date fields having an issue with “00” when 01/01/2000 arrived) might well serve as a contemporary roadmap for our current government turmoil. Nancy James has written a book describing how the very real Y2K crisis was averted. Her just published book describes how Y2K unfolded; how it was discovered, analyzed and corrected; how cooperation on every level succeeded. Along with this saga are the amusing mistakes, gaffs, near misses and a little-known potential national threat. This past 25-year historic perspective offers understanding of how a nation united to solve a universal challenge.