Millennium Legacies

By Henry Petroski-

Great Britain's Millennium Project and the engineering feats it entailed

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September-October 2001

Volume 89, Number 5
Page 396

DOI: 10.1511/2001.34.396

In the late 1990s, while most of the world was anticipating the failure of computers with the dawn of the year 2000, the United Kingdom was building notable structures designed to celebrate the millennium. The Y2K problem appeared to be, in the end, just so many system administrators crying "Wolf!" but the British millennium projects, both the successes and the failures, remain as legacies of a noble effort.

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