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2000 Means Trouble For Technology
Time / Pathfinder - 20 Nov 96
Just as businesses and federal agencies are feverishly rewriting
billions of lines of code to ensure that their computers' two digit
calendars don't treat "2000" like "1900," scientists are pointing to a
new looming millennial crisis: Cycle 23. A panel of government
researchers said Monday that the year 2000 falls on the cusp of an
11-year cycle of solar weather, and that humankind had better be
prepared.
Solar weather is the pattern of turbulence on the sun's surface that
sends electromagnetic pulses and bursts of charged particles toward the
Earth. The effects are not felt by humans, but by systems dependent on
electronics--especially computers.
Cycle 23 will be the worst yet, says Ernie Hildner, director of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Environment
Center in Boulder, Colorado. "With each new solar cycle that comes
along, new industries have crossed the threshold of vulnerability to
space weather, and they don't even know it until something happens to
them," said Hildner.
As technology gets increasingly sophisticated it also becomes more
vulnerable, and sudden surges from the sun can damage the electronics of
computer networks, satellite cell-phone systems, even disrupting oil
drilling directed by the earth's magnetic field. Indeed, any remote or
wired system, even pipelines and other arrays of massive metal, can be
affected by interference and induced current.
--November 20, 1996
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