Long Time TB200'ers, Could We Have an Infomagic Recap?

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I've been following the board for about a year, and occasionally see references to an Infomagic and his Y2K scenario, yet I've never been able to find the actual thread on which it was posted. Could someone in the know either point out the thread, or give us a recap?

And what about that other bloke, c4i?

Thanks!



-- Curious (curious@inthedark.com), December 23, 1999

Answers

It's pasted here:

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/1157/infomagic-2.htm

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), December 23, 1999.


Infomagic...where is he?

-- he was right (unless@it's.worse), December 23, 1999.

The "Infomagic" essays are fascinating, whether you "buy the premise" or not.

In particular, any student of history (which I love, personally) needs a dose of "the case for de-evolution." At the very least, you can't find the middle if you don't know where the edges are. The Nasdaq, in the final days of 1999, is one "edge," and Infomagic is the other.

Mankind has progressed over these many thousand years, but not in a straight line. It's been a stair-step advance...3 steps forward and one or two steps back. There are fractal correlations in all this; another good reference is "At the Crest of the Tidal Wave: A Case for the Great Bear Market," which also makes an "Infomagic-like" case, with great erudition (and it's a great read...)

At the end of a century which has seen our species kill ourselves in the 10's of millions...numbers that I, at least, can't even comprehend, I can only think that "It's the curse of Man...that they forget."

Good luck to us all.

-- joe (joe@adeveloper.net), December 23, 1999.


Infomagic has presented a plausible scenario, which I personally believe is even more probable today than when he wrote "Charlotte's Web", simply because the code is still broken and the world is still unprepared. Note that I personally am still not actually expecting things to get as bad that (I expect more of an economic depression), but unfortunately I sure would not rule it out.

8 days.

Y2K CANNOT BE FIXED!

-- Jack (jsprat@eld.~net), December 23, 1999.

Infomagic is the type of thinking we need to be considering, sharing, debating, WHETHER OR NOT y2k is the trigger at this time. Flaws yes, impossible no.

-- jor-el (jor-el@krypton.uni), December 23, 1999.


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