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Episode 101: Year 2000 Problem

Well There‘s Your Problem

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The Future of Computer Systems

As people start to realize that every computer knows what year it is, and actually weirdly depends on what year it was for a lot of things, people start to get worried. So so the computer knows like 1991 what because it knows 91, 92, 93, when you get to 2000, zero zero, it can't tell the difference between 2000 and 1900. It's going to be like, we've done back in time. Now it's we're doing computations. I can sexually harass other computers now. And next slide please, and the febrile atmosphere of the 1990s, because a lot of people think that, oh, it was just the end of history.

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