Official Trailer for ‘Time Bomb Y2K’ Doc In regards to the 1999 Tech Freak Out
by Alex Billington
December 12, 2023
Supply: YouTube
“I pray that individuals do not panic.” HBO has unveiled an official trailer for a documentary known as Time Bomb Y2K, which HBO will probably be debuting simply in time for this yr’s New Years proper on the finish of 2023. š¾ An immersive, all-archival retelling of the “Y2K” millennium bug and mass hysteria that modified the material of recent society. With entry to tons of uncommon archival materials, together with dwelling video & never-before-seen outtakes, the movie options first-hand accounts from pc consultants, survivalists, students, militia teams, conservative Christians, and pop icons grappling with a world that might descend into chaos. Having lauded the transformative energy of computer systems and the web, President Clinton invests billions of {dollars} and appoints a “Y2K Czar” in 1998 to sort out the issue. But, regardless of the federal government’s finest efforts, hysteria nonetheless leads many to purchase weapons, fill up on provides, cancel journey plans, and even transfer off the grid solely. The looming deadline prompts a deep analysis of our relationship to pc applied sciences. I assume it’s time somebody lastly retold this loopy story! Trying again 24 years later, all of it appears so nuts. Humanity, properā¦?
Here is the official trailer (+ poster) for Becker & McDonald’s doc Time Bomb Y2K, from HBO’s YouTube:
“With Y2K now within the rearview mirror and with new technological threats rising each day, Time Bomb Y2K raises issues concerning the digital infrastructure we have created and takes a prophetic and comical take a look at our dependence on complicated programs susceptible to future glitches. Y2K pressured us to contemplate what would occur if computer systems worldwide all of a sudden stopped working. Even worse, what if this failure led to nuclear disaster? Towards this backdrop, the world rose to the problem and exhibited unprecedented cooperation to in the end avert catastrophe.”
Because the clock counted right down to the daybreak of the twenty first century, the world was bracing for the most important potential technological catastrophe to ever threaten humanity. The issue is comically easy but extremely complicated ā a bug that might trigger computer systems to misread the yr 2000 as 1900, sowing chaos all through the world as digital programs failed. Crafted solely by archival footage, the HBO Documentary Time Bomb Y2K is a prescient and infrequently humorous story concerning the energy and vulnerabilities of know-how. By re-appraising each the cooperative efforts and mass hysteria surrounding this millennial milestone, Time Bomb Y2K explores how trendy life has been dramatically remodeled by the digital revolution. Time Bomb Y2K is directed by doc filmmakers Brian Becker & Marley McDonald (editor on affiliate editor on Spaceship Earth and All of the Magnificence and the Bloodshed), each making their characteristic directorial debut. It is produced by Brian Becker and HBO Documentary Movies, in affiliation with Spinning Nancy. HBO debuts Time Bomb Y2K streaming on Max beginning December thirtieth, 2023 proper earlier than this New Years. Who’s in?
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