This project (also known as project VCR2) was prepared in late 1999 by the "Y2K Preparedness Committee," an anonymous group of videographers concerned with the approaching millennium and its ramifications. It was distributed by reverse shoplifting to many video stores, where it posed as a public service announcement concerning the dangers of VCR Y2K incompliance. Unsuspecting viewers found themselves questioning whether any of the technology they use--car, dishwasher, computer, even food--was "Y2K compliant"--i.e., whether it lives up to corporate promises of enhanced social welfare through widespread technology usage.