"Y2K: A Teachable Moment" - Lesson Links

"Bibliographic Citations for the Digital Age" (www.hcc.hawaii.edu/hspls/bibcite.html)

What is the Y2K Issue?

• Federal Government's "Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council Committee on Y2K" page for kids (www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/mks/yr2000/kidsy2k.htm)
• FCC's website on Y2K background information (http://www.fcc.gov/year2000/bkgndtxt.html)
• Canadian Broadcasting Company's "Millennium News and Y2K for Kids" site (www.cbc4kids.ca/general/time/millennium/y2kqanda.html)
• Ken Holder's "The Year 2000 Disaster: The End of Civilization (As We Know It)?" (www.webleyweb.com/y2k/y2kintro.html)
• John Harvey's "Y2K? Don't Panic!" website (www.io.com/~johnbob/y2k/index.html)

Potential Problems

• Bill for fixing just Y2K software problems will reach $600 billion (www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?IWK19980525S0037
• Macintosh Y2K readiness (www.apple.com/about/year2000/)
• The Power Grid
  • Rick Cowles "Electric Utilties and Y2K" website (www.euy2k.com)
  • Daniel P. Dolan's online paper, "Beyond the Hype: Likely Y2K Impacts on U.S. Electricity Service" (www.year2000.com/y2kcurrent2.html)
• Economic Disruptions
  • Social Security Administration deemed "Y2K compliant" (www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/y2k/stories/fed_ss.htm)
  • Dr. Ed Yardeni's Economics Network (www.yardeni.com/y2kbook.html)
  • US Senate's "Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem." (www.senate.gov/~y2k/)
• Health Care Concerns
  • "little has been done in addressing the emergency needs of the disabled or elderly relative to Y2K" (www.cassandraproject.org/research.html)
  • "Healthcare's Year 2000 Information Clearinghouse" (www.rx2000.org)
• National Security Risks
  • US military capability is already significantly degraded from Gulf War levels (www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0998/093098a2.htm)
  • Air Force Magazine's "Midnight Crossing: Nobody knows what will happen when Y2K sweeps east across Chinese and Russian nuclear facilities" (www.afa.org/magazine/0799midnight.html)
  • US Department of Defense's "Defenselink" (www.defenselink.mil/issues/y2k.html)
  • Gary North's website (www.garynorth.com/y2k/results_.cfm/Military)
• Interdependencies
  • Developing country preparations for Y2K lag far behind those in the US (www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/y2k/stories/inatl_foreign.htm)
  • Yahoo's News Coverage of Y2K (headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/Tech/Year_2000_Problem)
  • "The Year 2000: A Date With Disaster" (www.cbn.org/news/stories/980706.asp)
  • "Global Survey Foresees Many Y2K Glitches" (www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/y2k/stories/inatl_072399.htm)
• Public Panic
  • "Y2K Gloom May Bring On the Doom," (www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/y2k/stories/consumer_panic.htm)
  • FAA has been certified "100% Y2K ready" (www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/0719/web-faay2k-7-21-99.html)

Preparations

• Consumer Reports article "How To Prepare for Y2K: Steps to take now to protect your home, finances, health, and travel plans" (www.consumerreports.org/Special/Samples/Reports/9905y2k0.htm)
• The Cassandra Project 's article "Individual Preparedness for Y2K" (www.cassandraproject.org/indprep.html)
• FEMA's (The Federal Emergency Management Agency) Y2K Consumer's Guide (www.fema.gov/y2k/bltn00.htm)
• FEMA's disaster preparation website (www.fema.gov/pte/prep.htm)