Maybe just in time to miraculously stop the malicious AI from taking over the world?
The world is mostly ready for the 2038 problem because we have mostly transitioned to 64bit machines where it isn't a problem.
There’s a lot of 32bit machines still around. There’s going to be a lot of problems in a lot of unexpected places
Y2K bug affected a lot of machines, yet the fear of the impact beforehand had a larger effect on society-at-large than any of the software consequences during the event.
Indeed, but so very few things were automated back then compared to now.
Sure, but we got thru y2k pretty unscathed. You don't think we can patch all the critical things in the next 15 years?
Tell that to all IoT things and PLCs out there. The *D* in IoT stands for Date.