Imagine, if you will, the year is 2035.
SCALE has just introduced Zebrafish 35.04 with SMB Quantum Tunneling, Anti-Vibration Hover-Chassis, and SMR Auto-Ejection. All is well, but a dark change looms on the horizon.
Kris opens a P1, we’ve run out of letters!
It’s all hands on-deck, engineers are pulled out of annual leave, hundreds of man hours spent working on a fix. Try as they might, you can’t just create more letters.
Winnielinnie grins smugly after applying their CORE 13 maintenance patch for the decade, after all, CORE doesn’t use letters, and there’s at least seven more numbers before we run out.
This is the nightmare scenario we will find ourselves in if we do not plan vigorously for the next eleven years to find a way out of this dire situation.
Are there any brave souls, nay, thinkers of our time, who can propose a solution to this mess?
But wait, after that crisis is averted, another waits less than 3 years later on January 19, 2038, The Epochalypse
Even if that is solved, we have more and more problems; Year 2106 Problem
Then, (looks around paranoidly), there is the Year 10K problem. We may only have 7,976 years to solve the 5 digit year problem but I guarantee their will be people that simply won’t be prepared for the end of humanity. Year 10,000 Problem
Great spot, without careful planning for at least the next 7,976 years we could be in some serious trouble… I suppose this means we’re running out of letters and numbers!
