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Nutrition is the Y2K of our time

Nutrition is the Y2K of our time

A $3.6T market in the US, and trillions more globally, is looming larger than the late 90s internet crisis.

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Carter Williams
Sep 02, 2022
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The turn of the millennium in 2000 was supposed to be an exciting event. Instead, for the IT and internet communities, it was a looming disaster. Thanks to a widespread computer programming shortcut from the early days of the technology, many programs only allowed two digits for each year — 1987, for example, would have been coded as just 87. That’s fin…

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