It was New Year’s Eve, 1999, and anxiety over potential Y2K doomsday scenarios about to be unleashed in the new year was real.Anything relying on automation — from the electrical grid to traffic lights, even your VCR — was at risk of failing, warned some experts. Banking systems could go haywire. And planes could fall from the sky, predicted others.In fact, a member of British Columbia’s Action 2000 squad, charged with troubleshooting the problem at the provincial level, gave this dire warning i
