Stephen Fry's In the Beginning was the Nerd
Over on the Radio 4 blog you can hear an intriguing interview Stephen Fry conducted with Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University, on the Y2K bug. Nick Baker, the producer of In the Beginning was the Nerd (on R4 this Saturday at 8pm), writes:
The Western world, with a few notable exceptions, poured billions of dollars into electronic pesticides to defeat the Y2K bug. Only to find that for the most part it could have been defeated by turning the systems off then on again. Shades of the hit C4 comedy . In reality it's the solution put forward in Stephen Fry's Archive on Four next Saturday by Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University, a world authority. Here - exclusive to the Radio 4 blog - is the full interview Stephen conducted with Ross on the crisis that fizzled out and the prospects of a real future digital Armageddon...
To hear Stephen's interview with Ross Anderson and to leave your comments visit the Radio 4 blog. (The picture, is by . Used .)