[interdoc-y2k 301] Re: Y2K: bank problems

["Marasigan . Vicente" <vic@pusit.admu.edu.ph>]

On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, tom abeles wrote:
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> If, as Bruce Sterling
> suggests, in his short story, we are just 1's and 0's in the banker's
> microchips then we have problems whether or not y2k is approaching.
> 
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I was looking for this short story of Bruce Sterling through
AltaVista, but the only item I could find was his June 1996 lecture in
Vancouver entitled "Unstable Networks."  Very interesting, but not the
topic you mention.

Tom, can you give us the gist?  Or the URL that displays the story?
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> maybe we should close our accounts of bits and bytes and turn
> it into gold and sliver? 
> 
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Soon, things will be more worthless than "sliver."  (I suspect that
our collective unconscious manipulated your keyboard to call our
attention to the reality behind this typo.)

Vicente