He asserts that fear of a worldwide computer failure in the year 2000 “has turned thoroughly secular individuals into unlikely millenarians ” who fear the advent of disasters like“ mass panic, government paralysis, food riots, planes crashing into skyscrapers. ”
“ कयामत का प्रचार करनेवाले पंथ, ” (“Doomsday Cults ”) इस विषय पर १९९८ ब्रिटेनिका बुक ऑफ द इयर में एक खास रिपोर्ट दी गई है ।