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In Australia Monday, the national daily the Australian voiced fears that the Australian government, which spent billions of dollars on Y2K prevention, might have succumbed to hysteria generated by the computer industry.
In any case, it's not as if the United States has no experience with this sort of thing, as evidenced by the hysteria occasioned by Japanese companies' acquisitions of properties like Rockefeller Center and Columbia Pictures in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Kids always love the Salem Witch Museum, a diorama show that tells the story of the witch hysteria when 19 people went to the gallows.
The China question has produced a kind of mass hysteria in the United States.
This laughably inaccurate prognostication reflected the hysteria of the moment and has illustrated for me the foolishness of making predictions, especially ones that can be proved wrong and used to shame you in social settings.