The Y2k problem in my opinion is a nothing more than propaganda cooked up in order scare people into buying products that will keep clocks and running systems from shutting down and crashing. The year is coming up quickly and there is much hype about it since we are on the brink of the millinuem.  There will be alot of crazy parties going on to celebrate the comming of 2000.  People do not have to be Y2k ready because the computer systems used will adjust themselves without a problem.   The affects of Y2k problem have made many business buy software to give them a reassurance that they will not be threated by a bug that will cause a problem.

As the millinneum approaches many people wonder what is going to happen on that new years day.  There have been several reports from all the over the United States that fear in mounting of the so called Y2K problem.  The people feel that the end of the world is nearing in reference to biblical parabels. Churches having been gearing up to suit the needs of those who fell that  The truth of the matter that even if their is a computer malfuction for whatever reason it will probably be in a secluded area where the technology is not so up to date.  The Y2k deal is has been blow completely out of proportion.  The items that come to mind with the new coming year are out of control riots/ parties in the streets and systems failures causes the computer from round the world to go down due to the fallic technology.  The most every technologically advanced country in the world is getting prepared.  Then again the Y2K could created problems that have not been seen  in the longest time.

The computers developers in the 90's could only speculate whether their would be a problem when the years 2000 arrived that would affect the running systems.  IBM has taken several great measures to make sure that their will be no problems with any of its companies machines by providing patches and ungrades avaible through the internet that would allow people to keep their businesses machines from going bad.  All the major modes of public transportation have began updating their computer equipment to some extents to ensure that their equipment will be comply when the new year comes about. Hospitals are a major worry on peoples minds.  Most every hospital does have a back up generator in the case of a earthquake or some other distaster that would keep the building from functioning at normal perimeters.  The health care technology is generally state of the art and has been carefully designed so that it would not fail.   Although this is true for most some of the equipment is very delicate and requires large quantites of energy to fuel them. All the banks and stock exchanges are being initiated into the group of the Y2K ready groupings.  If the banks and stock exchanges failed than a good deal of progress could be lost as well as funds for many.   Banks records are said to be volitile in the way that if the y2k bug bit down people would lose all their money and people would fall into a depression because the money on the computers would be gone.  If all major and minor private and public cooperations are not prepared than many people could face a hardship not to dissimiliar from the first two decades of the 20th century.

The millinneum bomb could be described in many ways one of which would be the collaspe of all the computer technology that would put everyone back into a state without the machine most people have grown dependant upon.  People fear that every one thousand years that something terrible will happen to them just because they are supersticous.   A good example of this would be the ex-Soviet Unions nuclear weapons and equipment that could go off with a bang in the year two thousand wiping out the United States.   What most people do not realize is those weapons have either been disarmed or sold off to other foriegn countries.  The may very well be weapons sitting dormant in missile silos but those require codes and activation credentials before they can be fired.  They will not just shoot up out of the ground because the year has changed. In response to people having stirred up hype about this it would appear that a small porition of the population is preparing a "cold war" style market that includes the air purifiers and radiation suits.  The a second bomb that could be bothersome to the United States or any other country that relies greatly upon computers for their stock exchange is the possibility of a stock market crash.  A stockmarket crash of epic proportions twice in one millinnuem that would not good for the United States record seeing as the US is so new and pretends to be the greatest nation in the world when in fact it is just a fatherless version or any form of government a person could think of.  The United States is spending 3.4 billion dollars to rectify the problem here so there should be no bomb coming from with in the states.

The people who have decided that they are sick of hearing about the Y2K problem have resorted to writing several articles attacking the individuals who are trying to use scare tactics in order to get more money out of people by selling them expensive programs and services that repair the problem but do little esle.  Writers of comic strips have began putting up some interesting art depicting scenes of chaos and people who are experiencing the bug in motion.  The grouping of people who are do not wish to hear any more of the Y2K problem are the older generations the ones who were brought up in the first half of the 20th century.  They are mostly conservative and dislike change, some of them do not even like the idea of the computer saying that it is the tool of the devil or that it just trys to put everyones life together in a hurry.  What can be drawn by this is that the Y2K could possibly draw out questions about us as a group of people and how we deal with the transition from year to year.  If people in the 1990's consider themselves conservatives now then how will liberal people be in future generations.  Y2K should not be getting the best of the general public because the people should be gearing up for celebration not worrying about the end being near.

There are many theories on as to why the Y2K bug were brought in to the light.   People had believed that the world wide black out would occur and we would all fall into the stone age.  The government may have a hand in creating a conspiracy that would possibly cause new wars or create unrest in the general populus.  In reality the big stir concerning the Y2K problem was to drain away the focus on other impending matters such as those internation ones like the constant problems in the Baulkans where both world wars began.  Could it be that world war three could come about soon because of the people not paying enough attention to what the United States officials are doing around that area.  Since the diplomats of the United States are well trained in handling countries problems the U.S. some of them might fail and the nightmare would begin perhaps a year or two after being shrouded as a Y2K mishap.  Y2K could be used to blame most anything since it affects machines nation-wide.  First of all if the government took any military action reporters would make it public as soon as possible getting as many details as were available.  Secondly the United States has an obligation to inform the public of big military activities however they do not have to speak of exercises done. Thirdly the United States would plausably deny an comments or remarks about what people speculate is going on showing that the people appear to using their delussions to cook up an idea and then blame the government as a bad guy which minority groups in the government often try to do inorder to draw attention, this would include the whistle blowers and the civil rights individuals.  There are no conspiracies in play it is easy to see that the government has used Y2K to get people aware that technology is man made and can easily be repaired by man, they are hiding nothing.

New Years Eve will be a very interesting one.  People will be partying in the streets showing off themselves being happy with the coming of 2000 and beverages will be in hand.  Will the fantastic be shut down by a nation wide power outage?  The experts have tackled this problem saying that the party will go on.  Most power plant grids take a day or less to get back on line in the case of the mainframe shut down.   There are many notable events that people will be going to worry free of the all-mighty bug.  The celebrations will occur in several fancy hotels that required almost a year in advanced booking with hefty prices for the nicest ones.  Twenty-five thousand dollars for the ones that the upper class will be attending.  A millinneum does not happen very often so why not spend ones money for a stylish place to be.  If the bug does bite of course all the luxuries of the hotel will be caput for the period of time.  Everyone will be herding into Times Square which is a site where the NewYears ball drops to show the end of a year. The up coming 2000 will be a year where people will try and take famous science fiction ideas and try to develop them into fictional concepts and perhaps working machines that serve a purpose.  The Millinnuem New Years for 2000 will probably forgotten half way through the year 2000.  This makes one wonder what life in America will be like in another 1000 years.  The country of the United States has after all only been together since the eighteenth century.  With hope this New Years will be an exciting day for all.

It would appear that all the problems that Y2K pose deal with computers only. People will not change just because a bunch of computers will not work.  The predicted social unrest will not happen.  In Maine a ice storm that only occured once every 500 years struck the state.  It was reported that there were not food shortages or riots.   The people spent their time very board or the period of days that were spent to get power online.  The computers will not be damaged by the changing year.  The only problem is that when the year occurs it will show as 1900 instead of 2000.  That was a computer programmers oversight.  It is in this essay writers opinion that the year 2000 will be a time for all to look back on the twentieth century and see all the good things about it and make right so that the same flaws do not reoccur.  There will never be peace in the heart of all man but 2000 could stir in some people that social changes should be made for acceptance of all.