The only reason it wasn't chaos was because a great many people spent a great deal of time and a great deal of money making sure it wouldn't be.
I doubt that sort of concerted investment of time, money and person power would be possible anymore, given how society is. So in 2038 it'll be way out the window.
2038 won't affect desktop computers - they're all 64bit these days. But given that banks and governments routinely use 16bit and 32bit legacy systems even now, I can see some unexpected serious disruption. Not planes falling from the skies type of stuff. More defence, welfare and health systems crashing catastrophically.
The only reason it wasn't chaos was because a great many people spent a great deal of time and a great deal of money making sure it wouldn't be.
I doubt that sort of concerted investment of time, money and person power would be possible anymore, given how society is. So in 2038 it'll be way out the window.
2038 won't affect desktop computers - they're all 64bit these days. But given that banks and governments routinely use 16bit and 32bit legacy systems even now, I can see some unexpected serious disruption. Not planes falling from the skies type of stuff. More defence, welfare and health systems crashing catastrophically.
no-deal brexit might run it close.
And this time, we don't know what end result we need to achieve.
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