Love the podcast but this guest was one of the weakest you have had. I suspect that Josh and his audience know more about the topics discussed than the guest.
Yes, I'm a software engineer and can confirm that companies spent millions/billions fixing Y2K - that's why nothing happened. I worked on a system and new code was amazingly being developed in 1998 with only 2 digit dates ... just two years prior to 2000!
There were failures even after the fixed code was applied in the company I worked. Luckily nothing critical!
It's amazing to me people still think this was a hoax.
Is this not true that the turn of the millennium was the eve of 31/12/2000 and we woke in the third millennium on 01/01/2001? If so, then we still have 25 years to go to 2050 and have only spent 24 years in the 21st century. Hence we are still closer to the 20th century than to the middle of the 21st. Unless we agree that the 21st century began on 01/01/2000. Just wondering…
Re: driverless/autonomous cars, I’ve been reading a little book called “Why We Drive”, by Matthew B. Crawford, and it has really changed my views/reawakened old feelings I’ve had and lost along the way in the many years since becoming a New Yorker who (thankfully) rarely needs to drive my car.
Hard to summarize it in a Substack comment (and who would read that?), but I’m about halfway through and I recommend at least reading and thinking about its arguments. It has made me even more skeptical of the self-driving/autonomous car thing, tbh—not at all *against* it as a useful technology, to be clear, just… well, skeptical. And maybe a tad bit apprehensive.
So yeah, anyway, maybe check it out if it sounds like it might be your bag—or if it doesn’t, in which case it just might surprise you. Happy new year one and all!
Been a regular VR explorer since 2016 and I’m eagerly awaiting for the penny to drop when everyone starts using VR/MR like we use phones. Will be real interesting to hear Josh wrestling with the social and morale conundrums VR creates. When the form factor / comfort gets to there
Thanks Josh and Ben. This was an interesting and enjoyable conversation.
My only disappointment is that you didn’t ponder the uncomfortable topic of climate change. I just listened to Ben’s podcast episodes on climate change. It would have interesting to hear you talk about this.
Love the podcast but this guest was one of the weakest you have had. I suspect that Josh and his audience know more about the topics discussed than the guest.
Yes, I'm a software engineer and can confirm that companies spent millions/billions fixing Y2K - that's why nothing happened. I worked on a system and new code was amazingly being developed in 1998 with only 2 digit dates ... just two years prior to 2000!
There were failures even after the fixed code was applied in the company I worked. Luckily nothing critical!
It's amazing to me people still think this was a hoax.
Could you please not interrupt your interviewer quite so much. I ‘m convinced you are witty, smart, already
Is this not true that the turn of the millennium was the eve of 31/12/2000 and we woke in the third millennium on 01/01/2001? If so, then we still have 25 years to go to 2050 and have only spent 24 years in the 21st century. Hence we are still closer to the 20th century than to the middle of the 21st. Unless we agree that the 21st century began on 01/01/2000. Just wondering…
Re: driverless/autonomous cars, I’ve been reading a little book called “Why We Drive”, by Matthew B. Crawford, and it has really changed my views/reawakened old feelings I’ve had and lost along the way in the many years since becoming a New Yorker who (thankfully) rarely needs to drive my car.
Hard to summarize it in a Substack comment (and who would read that?), but I’m about halfway through and I recommend at least reading and thinking about its arguments. It has made me even more skeptical of the self-driving/autonomous car thing, tbh—not at all *against* it as a useful technology, to be clear, just… well, skeptical. And maybe a tad bit apprehensive.
So yeah, anyway, maybe check it out if it sounds like it might be your bag—or if it doesn’t, in which case it just might surprise you. Happy new year one and all!
Been a regular VR explorer since 2016 and I’m eagerly awaiting for the penny to drop when everyone starts using VR/MR like we use phones. Will be real interesting to hear Josh wrestling with the social and morale conundrums VR creates. When the form factor / comfort gets to there
Thanks Josh and Ben. This was an interesting and enjoyable conversation.
My only disappointment is that you didn’t ponder the uncomfortable topic of climate change. I just listened to Ben’s podcast episodes on climate change. It would have interesting to hear you talk about this.