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Summary: Find another book.
Review: This book easily ranks as the worst Y2k book that I have read to date. I am confident that I will not be able to find a poorer example of mindless hype and literary opportunism. This book offers no new insights into the Y2k problem itself or how it affects you. The author exhibits a puerile understanding of the problem. He offers few verifiable examples of the problem, and those few were years old at the time the book was printed. Far more common are unverifiable stories that appear to have come right out of an e-mail chain letter. For example, on page 93 the author regales us with the story of a company set their microwave to 31 Dec 1999 and now it doesn't work! Which company? what brand of microwave? when did this happen? As a rule, if you cannot set the date on a device, then it probably does not care about the date and therefore cannot have a Y2k problem. Such an unusual example cannot be considered credible without a few details. The "logic" applied by the author is little different from "logic" used by most Y2k Chicken Littles: if it is a computer (or electronic device) it could have a problem, therefore it does have a problem; if it has a problem, it could be a catastrophic problem, therefore it will be a catastrophic problem; therefore all computers will crash catastrophically, society will collapse, and we could all die, Q.E.D. Oh, and let's not forget the New World Order Conspiracy. What better way to make this book stand out among hundreds of other panic-stricken tomes than to invoke the specter New World Order. References to the New World Order Conspiracy appear on three consecutive pages (117-119) and no where else in the book. What is the conspiracy? I don't know and, apparently, neither does the author, but it sells books. Beyond the following statement there is no explanation of the book's title: "Y2K will be used by government, the United Nations, terrorist's organizations, or even religious zealots to take advantage of the possible chaos." If you are looking for useful information to evaluate how Y2k will affect you, look somewhere else.
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Summary: Title Not Accurate
Review: This book really doesn't tell anything you haven't read in other Y2K books. There are minimal pages mentioning the New World Order, and those give no real information at all. I expected a lot more regarding the New World Order and Y2K. I was very disappointed in this book.
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