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The Chicken Cannon and the Y2K Crisis

CNN's John Sutter talks with Dr. Sanjay Gupta about the Y2K crisis and what he learned from it. He says there was a real threat that core systems, many of which dated back to like 60s era mainframes had just never been overhauled. The new millennium came and went with a kind of yawn, but we didn't need to combat COVID as much at the time they were created, Gupta says.

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