Your tought on Epochalyps

[Noctosphere]

For those who are old enough to know about the year 2000 bug, those who tought that all computers in the world would run up to december 31st 1999, at 23h59:59 and crash one second later,
What if I told you that this bug can still happen? It hasn't happened yet, but it will happen in a few years, on January 19 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC (precisely).
It is the moment where the bug we feared in 1999 will actually happen. The moment where the internal clock of many system will actually overflow.

Now, I don't think we should actually fear anything, since only system based on a 32-bit architecture will actually overflow.
However, since more systems than just windows clock use this internal clock (RNG and more), what do you think will happen with these system that will overflow?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

 

[Veho]

Isn't Android 32 bit? All phones will explode and Apple will rule once again.

Bah. We'll probably get a patch for that at some point, and since everything is always online these days it will just be pushed OTA and nobody will notice a thing.

 

[K3Nv4]

With phones being required to be user friendly replaceable batteries soon™ I think the casings may even get fireproof enough to where a battery venting won't even damage them say from an overheating situation or bend stress. I'm thinking more titanium housing around batteries maybe?

Although I think people are geeky enough to where we basically can avoid a major crisis with technology never know when a huge bug may destroy software/hardware. All it takes is one drunk Google intern to be careless.