Y2K's ending underscores the central humanist theme of the film, even while highlighting the bittersweet cost of triumph over a comically dark robot uprising. Set on New Year's Eve at the turn of the ...

Y2K takes inspiration from a real life fear about technology at the turn of the 21st century. Here's how the real Y2K scare ...

While worries over disruptions and human responses to them were at the heart of Y2K jitters, there also was a creepy realization that technology had fully infiltrated modern life, Taylor says.