Editor’s Take

Instead, let’s track back just a few years to Boston, June 2001. That was probably the most apprehensive I can ever recall seeing attendees at an NCC/ACC/ACCM — and to think, the Red Sox hadn’t won their first (modern era) World Series yet.

Just three months prior to Sept. 11, the dot-com bubble was bursting and the economy was beginning to tumble. The mood among attendees was one of gloom and doom. Similar issues to today: costs rising, response falling.