Deadline Y2K

Author Note

The author would like to thank the following people for their invaluable contributions to this work: Mike Phillips of San Francisco for first mentioning Y2K as a subject worth writing about; Nick Ellison, my agent, for suggesting the millennium as a topic of wide interest; Daniel Starer of Research for Writers, New York City, for his extraordinary ability to provide a nuclear reactor on demand; Professor Charles Shapiro of the Physics Department of San Francisco State University for teaching me to understand Dan’s reactor; radio guru Peter Gerba for his patient explanations of telecommunications; architect William Rosenblum of New York for his descriptions of many New York buildings; business adventurer Peter Winslow for his detailed analysis of life in Manhattan; day trader Barry Shapiro and entrepreneur Mark Lediard for making sense of Y2K, the stock markets and financial institutions. Lastly, and most gratefully, I would like to thank my editor, Jim Fitzgerald, for finding a thousand flaws, providing the big fix and making this book Y2K compliant.