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On the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve 1999, aircraft will fall out of the sky, lifts stop mid floor, power stations will cease generating, nuclear reactors will go critical and missiles will fire themselves at random.1 Broadcasting will stop, vehicles will grind to a halt so food supplies will not get through, money will disappear as the banks’ computers fail and civil disorder will break out. Those were only some of the disasters that were predicted.
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Williams, J.B. (2017). The Electronics Revolution. In: The Electronics Revolution. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49088-5_29
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