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Funny! This was written about 1981, right? Which essay?

Re: "This won't be running then". On Peter de Jager's Year 2000 mailing
list, in February of '96, there was quite a bit of discussion about leap
year calculations, that started with the need to make sure that our programs
handled them correctly in a matter of weeks, which branched off into
discussions of how to make leap day calculations, then how to make them
correctly. When posters insisted that one calculate for century digits not
divisible by four (or years divisible by one hundred but not by four
hundred, if you prefer), others countered that dividing by four was good
enough, and that there was no reason to worry about 2100. We wouldn't be
there to worry about it, and "this program won't be running then". Of
course, some pointed out that that is how we wound up with a year 2000 issue
to begin with.

One of the things Nicholas Negroponte does in "Being Digital" is hedge his
references, such as:
our television (or whatever we will call it then) will show us a football
game (or whatever we call it then)...

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com