From ARTHUR C. CLARKE
Amused by Garry Smith’s ‘Running out of time’ (Forum, 29 February),
as I described exactly this situation (the inability of the world’s computers
to cope with the ’00’ in the year ‘2000’) – and its cure – in The Ghost
from the Grand Banks (Gollancz, 1990). See chapter ‘The Century Syndrome’.
I must confess it wasn’t my idea – I saw a reference to this problem around
1989, but can’t remember where.
Arthur C. Clarke Sri Lanka
