Top 10 Tech Scares of the Decade

11.01.2011
The dawn of the new millennium prompted fears about the future, but so far reality has not quite matched the predictions of catastrophe. The first ten years passed uneventfully--well, aside from Y2K and a bunch of intelligent computer viruses. Here's a look back at the past decade, and ten of the most terrifying tech scares.

Year: 2000

Predicted outcome: End of the world and technology as we know it

Actual outcome: Accidental alarms, slot machine failures, incorrect dates on Websites

If you were around for the turn of the millennium, you undoubtedly heard something about and its potential outcomes. Then you probably felt like it didn't live up to the hype when the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2000, and nuclear missiles didn't start automatically launching themselves.