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Now imagine you have to find... - (HELICOPTER THRUMS)
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Time Bomb Y2K

Now imagine you have to find...- (HELICOPTER THRUMS) and replace every bolt inevery bridge...

Now imagine you have to find...
- (HELICOPTER THRUMS) and replace every bolt in
every bridge in the world, and you only have
21 months to do it

Full Transcript

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- Now imagine you have to find... - (HELICOPTER THRUMS)
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and replace every bolt in every bridge in the world,
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and you only have 21 months to do it.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
30
Timestamp in Movie
00:12:48
Uploaded
Apr 21, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
HBO Documentary Films,Spinning Nancy

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Movie Summary

An immersive, all-archival retelling of the "Y2K" millennium bug and the mass hysteria that changed the fabric of modern society.
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - Time Bomb Y2K 00:14
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ - Time Bomb Y2K 00:14
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
What Y2K is about really is the pervasiveness - Time Bomb Y2K 00:10
What Y2K is about really is the pervasiveness
It's the big fragile systems, the brittle systems - Time Bomb Y2K 00:07
It's the big fragile systems, the brittle systems
Things like power, electric communications, - Time Bomb Y2K 00:08
Things like power, electric communications,
MARK KINGWELL: These are the things - Time Bomb Y2K 00:06
MARK KINGWELL: These are the things
It's the economies of the countries - Time Bomb Y2K 00:06
It's the economies of the countries
You can have a company like General Motors - Time Bomb Y2K 00:09
You can have a company like General Motors
And if you can't get the widget that goes into the seat - Time Bomb Y2K 00:08
And if you can't get the widget that goes into the seat
Computers which control public transportation systems - Time Bomb Y2K 00:07
Computers which control public transportation systems
- (MONITOR BEEPING) - ♪ (SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ - Time Bomb Y2K 00:13
- (MONITOR BEEPING) - ♪ (SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC CONTINUES) ...
Imagine how many things are now run with computer chips - Time Bomb Y2K 00:09
Imagine how many things are now run with computer chips
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC BUILDS) ♪ - Time Bomb Y2K 00:06
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
- ♪ (MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY) ♪ - (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) - Time Bomb Y2K 00:05
- ♪ (MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY) ♪ - (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
It seems unbelievable, but it's only 535 days from now. - Time Bomb Y2K 00:06
It seems unbelievable, but it's only 535 days from now.
At the stroke of midnight, - Time Bomb Y2K 00:09
At the stroke of midnight,
It is a complex test that requires us all - Time Bomb Y2K 00:07
It is a complex test that requires us all
Every government agency, every university, - Time Bomb Y2K 00:17
Every government agency, every university,
This is clearly one of the most - Time Bomb Y2K 00:07
This is clearly one of the most
More than anything else, the year 2000 problem - Time Bomb Y2K 00:11
More than anything else, the year 2000 problem