I guess that the interesting thing about Y2K from my point of view (speaking as both a folkie and as someone who's been involved with computers for the last 30 years or so) is the perspective of time that's involved here. Back in 1970 those of us who were writing programs were looking at a presumptive 'program lifetime' of only a few years; everything would be rewritten by 1980 because if for no other reason the language we were writing in (COBOL68!) would be completely out of date by then. As someone who was into doing things vocally that had been supposed to be out of date for hundreds (rather than tens) of years I think that my love of folk music was part of giving me a different perspective on this. At least in the sense that any program I ever wrote will not be affected by the year in which it's being used. Not so easy when you're talking computers as when you're doing the songs, but having the songs as a background gave me the right mindset at least. Pity that not all of the '70's programmers were folkies, we might never have had the problem in the first place...:-)

-mike-