It should be obvious, in view of the technological stature of Mayan culture, that there may be some serious, heavy-weight Mayan machinery still in operation doing who-knows-what, and when the Mayan calendar runs out, the Mayan equivalent of Y2K bugs will start kicking in, and we'll be seeing the Mayan version of All Hell Breaking Loose.
And to make things worse, there are no Mayan technicians around today to do all the sanity checks, preventive maintenance and bug-fixes that the original inventors decided to put off till later.
Well, okay, maybe all that Mayan machinery has already broken down (for lack of regularly scheduled human sacrifices or whatever). That just frees us up for another 26 years...
The 32-bit UNIX epoch comes to an abrupt end at 03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, 19 January 2038 (cf.
the wiki page). Watch out, and be prepared -- you might end up going back to 1901! (so dress appropriately)
autotelic adj. (of an entity or event) having within itself the purpose of its existence or happening.
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