If you haven't heard enough about Y2K...

[Karyn Quinlan]

The public has indicated a strong interest in CPSR's perspectives on 
y2k.
 
Personally, my interest in all things y2k is flagging. I'd like to 
see CPSR better articulate a coherent voice on the largely ignored, but 
ultimately far more important, techno-social-political issues of our times. 
Perhaps we will yet. It seems that we are on the brink of bigger things. 

That said, *if* I am going to read more about y2k (and I suppose I will). I 
look forward to reading about it from the minds of Peter Neumann, Terry 
Winograd, Gary Chapman and other CPSR notables, past and present (and 
seminal sci-fi writer, Arthur C. Clarke, The Sentinel [2001: A Space 
Odyssey] and the inventor of the synchronous satellite, no less!).

Link to CPSR's first online issue at: 
http://www.cpsr.org/publications/newsletters/issues/1999/Winter1999/


Karyn
CPSR/Seattle
 


At 11:05 AM 3/29/99 -0800, Doug Schuler wrote:
>
>CPSR WINTER NEWSLETTER FOCUSES ON Y2K
>
>"Will my house be warm on January 1, 2000?" 
>"Will I be able to fill my gas tank?" 
>"Will we have an accidental war?" 
>"Should I take all my cash out of the bank?" 
>
>Those are the questions inundating CPSR members.  
>The most obvious response CPSR can make is to dedicate 
>an issue of the CPSR Newsletter to sating the thirst with 
>our "take" on the issues.
>
>A BREAKTHROUGH FOR CPSR PUBLICATIONS
>The Special Winter 1999 Issue of the CPSR Newsletter will 
>be our first-ever completely online. You can link to it 
>from our home page or from: 
>
>http://www.cpsr.org/publications/newsletters/issues/1999/Winter1999/.  
>
>If you wish, we can email you a text version or mail you a transcript.  
>Just let our office know at cpsr at cpsr.org. Guest editor: Marsha Woodbury.
>
>WHAT YOU'LL FIND
>¥ Arthur C. Clarke's chapter, "The Century Syndrome," 
>from his novel, The Ghost from the Grand Banks.
>
>¥ "A Perspective on Y2K," by Peter Neumann, who won 
>the Norbert Weiner Award in 1997 for his work on 
>documenting computer risks. He views Y2K as a serious 
>concern and also as the tip of a much larger iceberg of 
>computer risk.
>
>¥ Gary Chapman, former Executive Director of CPSR, has 
>two articles: "Now for Another Daunting Y2K Task: 
>Educating America's Masses," and "A Moral Project for 
>the the 21st Century: Stop Creating Better Weapons."
>
>¥ Tony Ralston, professor emeritus of computer science 
>and member of the CPSR advisory board, gives his 
>impressions of the Y2K problem in "Y2K and Social 
>Responsibility."
>
>¥ Lenny Siegel's article "OOPs 2000: The Y2K Bug and the 
>Threat of Catastrophic Chemical Releases."
>
>¥ Khursch Ahmed, David Parnas, Barbara Simons, and 
>Terry Winograd express their  nuclear weapons concerns
>
>¥ Norman Kurland and others in the CPSR Y2K Working 
>Group wrote the "How Y2K Will Impact the New York 
>Times."
>
>¥ Marsha Woodbury, Chair of CPSR, contributes the 
>introduction, "Y2K: A Broad View."
>
>¥ Y2K Humorfrom the Internet and Beyond," collected by 
>friends and members.
>
>¥ Chapter news, letters to the editor, a cartoon, and more.
>
>Let's use Y2K to explore computer risks and our  
>relationship to them.
>
>Take a look at the Y2K newsletter!
>
>> --
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>http://www.cpsr.org/
>Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
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>Phone: (650) 322-3778    *   Fax: (650) 322-4748     *   
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