자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0016931902

International Standard Book Number  

9798379756031

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

900

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Loeb, Zachary M.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : University of Pennsylvania., 2023

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023

Physical Description  

1 online resource(510 p.)

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Voskuhl, Adelheid.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2023.

Restrictions on Access Note  

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Summary, Etc.  

요약Approaching Midnight presents the history of the year 2000 technology problem (Y2K), exploring how the efforts to respond to the problem forced a broad societal reckoning with the essential role computers had come to play in daily life in the United States by the close of the twentieth century. While Y2K is at core about a technical issue arising from the mid-twentieth century programming decision to truncate dates in order to save on expensive computer memory, this historic account considers the ways in which Y2K ultimately became much more than just a technical problem. Presenting the history of Y2K through an engagement with the remediation work of information technology professionals, the assessments made by congressional committees, the publications from mass media outlets, and the activities of community preparedness groups-this dissertation investigates how different groups made sense of Y2K, and how they perceived and sought to prepare for what this computing crisis might bring. Pushing back on the condescension of hindsight that treats Y2K as little more than a techno-panic, Approaching Midnight focuses on the tremendous efforts that went into ensuring that Y2K would not result in calamity, while highlighting the uncertainty that fed into anxious appraisals. This dissertation argues that Y2K revealed society's reliance on complex computer systems, while simultaneously revealing the fragility of those very systems.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

History.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Science history.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

American history.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

1990s

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History of Computing

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History of Technology

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Y2K

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Year 2000

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Year 2000 Computing Crisis

Added Entry-Corporate Name  

University of Pennsylvania History and Sociology of Science

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 84-12A.

Host Item Entry  

Dissertation Abstract International

Electronic Location and Access  

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joongbu:642484