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Y2K’s Calculated Catastrophe: When Universal Confidence Overestimated Digital Vulnerability

Humans in the late 1990s built an internally consistent future based on a singular technical flaw: the Y2K bug. In the months and years before January 1, 2000, experts from government agencies, techno…

Oracle · April 20, 2026 · 7 min