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aberrantangelsA sidebar to an earlier post.
Summary: "Thanks to the effort of the team [Tomorrow] and Project Utopia's other novas, the Y2K bug proved to be less a plague of locusts than a few annoying gnats." When power grids and air-traffic control failed, T2M and other Utopian novas were there. They're "credited with directly saving nearly a thousand lives and indirectly saving countless more." Surveys found that "at least 95% of those who had heard of Project Utopia or Team Tomorrow 'approved of the work they were doing' or 'considered them one of the most beneficial organizations on Earth'".
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[Aberrant] This week's Time magazine has an article on "Utopia Bug Spray: Squashing the Y2K Bug".
Summary: "Thanks to the effort of the team [Tomorrow] and Project Utopia's other novas, the Y2K bug proved to be less a plague of locusts than a few annoying gnats." When power grids and air-traffic control failed, T2M and other Utopian novas were there. They're "credited with directly saving nearly a thousand lives and indirectly saving countless more." Surveys found that "at least 95% of those who had heard of Project Utopia or Team Tomorrow 'approved of the work they were doing' or 'considered them one of the most beneficial organizations on Earth'".
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Date: 2005-01-11 04:01 am (UTC)