THE NIGHT THE WORLD STOPPED: Waiting for the Millennium Mistake 01/01/2000

di David Blackwood (Autore)

David Blackwood, 2025

December 31, 1999. 11:59 PM. Seven billion people hold their breath. Not for fireworks. Not for champagne. For something far more terrifying: to see if the computers that run our world will recognize the year 2000—or think it's 1900 and send civilization crashing back to the pre-digital age. The Night the World Stopped is the untold story of the Y2K crisis—the moment humanity collectively realized that two missing digits in ancient computer code could trigger global catastrophe. Elevators might plunge. Power grids could fail. Planes might fall from the sky. Banks could erase every account. Nuclear plants might melt down. It was the first time the internet-connected world faced a truly global threat together. And nobody knew if we'd survive. Through interconnected narratives spanning continents and cultures, this documentary novel follows the people who lived through those final hours: Jennifer and Michael – standing in Times Square among a million people celebrating—or mourning—the end of the world. Marcus – alone in a server room in Virginia, watching code he wrote decades ago face its ultimate test. Elena – guarding her sleeping children in Prague while her husband works frantically to prevent disaster. Sarah – a journalist chasing the story of mass hysteria and collective fear. Leonard – a survivalist in Montana who spent everything preparing for catastrophe. Based on extensive research and real accounts, The Night the World Stopped captures what it felt like to stand at the threshold of the millennium, uncertain whether morning would come. It's the story of the programmers who worked for two years to prevent disaster—and were called liars when nothing happened. The story of families who stockpiled supplies and were mocked when the lights stayed on. A crisis so perfectly averted that people forgot it was ever real. Twenty-five years later, we've forgotten how close we came. How real the fear was. How much effort it took to keep the world running. This is the story of the night humanity held its breath—waiting to see if technology would save us or destroy us. A documentary novel about collective fear, technological fragility, and what happens when the world discovers that everything we depend on is held together by code nobody fully understands.

• Autore: David Blackwood
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: David Blackwood
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232689513