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| Year-2000 Fallback Planning Overview | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Risk Management | |
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| Severity of the Problem (Day, Month, Year, Decade) | |
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| "Bottom Line" Advice | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Year-2000 Impact on Jobs | |
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| Introduction | |
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| How Could the Year-2000 Problem Cause All of This? Fallback Advice: The Two-Day Shutdown | |
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| Fallback Advice: The One-Month Shutdown | |
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| Fallback Advice: The One-Year Shutdown | |
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| Fallback Advice: The Ten-Year Shutdown | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Year-2000 Impact on Utilities | |
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| Introduction | |
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| How Could Such Failures Happen? The Electrical System | |
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| Additional Year-2000 Problems for Utility Companies | |
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| Fallback Advice: The Two-Day Failure | |
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| Fallback Advice: The One-Month Failure | |
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| Fallback Advice: The One-Year Failure | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Year-2000 Impact on Transportation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Automobiles | |
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| Public Transportation: Trains and Buses | |
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| Planes | |
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| Another Transportation Problem: tGPS Rollover Failures in 1999 | |
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| Fallback Advice: Two-Day Problems | |
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| Fallback Advice: One-Month Problems | |
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| Fallback Advice: One-Year Problems | |
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| Fallback Advice: Ten-Year Problems | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Year-2000 Impact on Banking/Finance | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Year 2000 and the Banking System | |
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| More Serious Banking Problems | |
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| What's the Fed Doing About All of This? Credit Cards | |
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| The Stock Market | |
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| Recap: Could Things Really Be This Bad? | |
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| Fallback Advice: The Two-Day Failure | |
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| Fallback Advice: The One-Month Failure | |
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| Fallback Advice: The One-Year Failure | |
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| Fallback Advice: The Ten-Year Failure | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Year-2000 Impact on Food | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Delivery of Food | |
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| Fallback Advice: Two-Day Failures | |
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| Fallback Advice: One-Month Failures | |
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| Fallback Advice: One-Year Failures | |
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| Fallback Advice: Ten-Year Failures | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Year-2000 Impact on Your Home PC | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Hardware Vulnerability | |
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| Operating System Vulnerability | |
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| Application Vulnerability | |
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| We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Us | |
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| Fallback Suggestions the Two-Day Failure | |
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| Fallback Suggestions the One-Month Failure | |
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| Fallback Suggestions the One-Year Failure | |
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| Fallback Suggestions the Ten-Year Failure | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Year-2000 Impact on News Info | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Television and Radio | |
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| Newspapers and Magazines | |
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| Fallback Advice Two-Day, One-Month, One-Year, and Ten-Year Failures | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Year-2000 Impact on Health/Medicine | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Medical Devices and Hospital Systems | |
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| Doctors | |
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| Medicare, Insurance, and Hospital/Doctor Paperwork | |
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| Prescription medicines | |
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| Fallback AdviceTwo-Day Failures | |
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| Fallback AdviceOne-Month Failures | |
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| Fallback AdviceOne-Year Failures | |
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| Fallback AdviceTen-Year Failures | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Year-2000 Impact on Government | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Social Security | |
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| Welfare, Food Stamps, Medicare, etc | |
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| Internal Revenue Service | |
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| The Defense Department | |
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| Other Federal Agencies | |
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| State and Local Agencies | |
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| What is Government Doing About the Year-2000 Problem? | |
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| What Should the Government Be Doing About Year-2000? | |
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| Fallback AdviceTwo-Day Failures | |
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| Fallback AdviceOne-Month Failures | |
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| Fallback AdviceOne-Year Failures | |
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| Fallback AdviceTen-Year Failures | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Year-2000 Impact on Embedded Systems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Fallback AdviceTwo-Day Failures | |
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| Fallback AdviceOne-Month Failures | |
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| Fallback AdviceOne-Year Failures | |
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| Fallback AdviceTen-Year Failures | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Year-2000 Impact on Education | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Fallback AdviceTwo-Day Disruptions | |
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| Fallback AdviceOne-Month Disruptions | |
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| Fallback AdviceOne-Year Disruptions | |
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| Fallback AdviceTen-Year Disruptions | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Year-2000 Impact on Telephone and Mail Services | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Telephone, Fax, and E-mail | |
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| Mail and Parcel PostFedEx, UPS, DHL, and the U.S | |
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| Postal Service | |
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| Fallback AdviceTwo-Day Disruptions | |
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| Fallback AdviceOne-Month Disruptio | |