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Time Bomb Y2K

Things like power,electric communications, air traffic control, banking

Things like power,
electric communications, air traffic control, banking

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Things like power, electric communications,
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air traffic control, banking.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
35
Timestamp in Movie
00:13:41
Uploaded
Apr 21, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
HBO Documentary Films,Spinning Nancy

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An immersive, all-archival retelling of the "Y2K" millennium bug and the mass hysteria that changed the fabric of modern society.
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
Earlier this year, - Time Bomb Y2K 00:17
Earlier this year,
(CHUCKLES) ...out of retirement and take this on, - Time Bomb Y2K 00:09
(CHUCKLES) ...out of retirement and take this on,
(CHUCKLES) - Time Bomb Y2K 00:07
(CHUCKLES)
We are at the White House. We're here with John Koskinen. - Time Bomb Y2K 00:05
We are at the White House. We're here with John Koskine...
You've been known in papers and articles as the Y2K czar. - Time Bomb Y2K 00:06
You've been known in papers and articles as the Y2K cza...