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Y2K: Scapegoat or Culprit?
The changeover to the year 2000 will only augment the mechanical failures that are already a fact of life. That's essentially what John Koskinen, head of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, is saying. Koskinen oversees the U.S. government's preparations for malfunctions due to the Y2K computer bug. It is certain, he says, that some things will fail on New Year's Eve. Credit card transactions may not process, the lights may go out, phone service may fail. But exactly which problems are due to computer confusion from the date change and which are just the normal run  of things could be difficult to determine. Hear more as NPR's David Kestenbaum reports for All Things Considered.
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