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Notes on a panic: Y2K's 25th birthday

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A quarter-century ago , Chris Taylor was a TIME reporter on the Y2 K beat.

He chronicled the code conundrum that began in the mid-20th century when programmers wrote two -digit numbers to indicate years , mostly to save space on the punch cards used in COBOL, an early computer programming language.

The panic was overblown, of course, and the Earth kept turning on Jan. 1 .

"With Y2K , the problem was easy, we totally understood it," Taylor says.

"With AI , it seems like we don’t even understand what we’re talking about. No one’s even on the same page. It seems very appropriate for our time that we can't even agree on the basic structure of reality any more.".

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