The global impact of the Millennium Bug runs deep in the commercial and cultural community. Y2K offered consumerist societies not only promise. What were the official responses to the Y2K phenomenon and what was the effect of prophesy on the public imagination and the personal psyche of the electronic age? This post-mortem examined the relationship between millennial tension, popular culture, information technologies, artists and the media, the psychology of mass panic and cultural anxiety, and the Millennium Bug as metaphor for collective apocalyptic fears.
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In ACMI's collection
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ACMI Identifier
B1000160
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Popular culture
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Year 2000 date conversion (Computer systems)
Holdings
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan