The article I chose was from New York Times in Feb.9 1999. The article briefly described the “Y2K” problem, and expressed people’s fear towards that problem. “Y2K” problem is an abbreviation of “Year 2000 Problem”. Computers designed in 20th century usually marked dates in two digits since the designers assumed the year would start with “19”; however, several programmers noticed that the whole system would shut down at the first day of 2000 because computers would recognize the year as “1900” and cause critical errors. Rumors had been spreading all over the society, and people started to go on strike since they felt the whole society would collapse. The article aimed to persuade people to stop fearing the breakdown of technology and argued that human beings could live their lives perfectly without the existence of computer systems. This article reminds me of chapter “Five-Jiao Men” in Super Sad True Love Story. In this chapter, the protagonist Lenny demonstrates how depressed the society becomes after losing the technologies. People “couldn’t see a future without their apparati” (270) since they feel they have lost connection with the society. We, as readers, felt this was exaggerating and pathetic; nevertheless, if “Y2K” problem actually occurred, our society might become as depressed as the novel describes. Fortunately, advanced programmers around the world solved the “Y2K” problem before hitting 21st century and saved the society from falling apart. Nevertheless, I feel it is extremely lamentable for people to fear the loss of technology. I concede that technologies help people in many ways and facilitate the development of society; nonetheless, human beings should never lose hope for the future no matter whether the technologies will crash or not. Gray Shteyngart demonstrates readers how important it is to maintain humanity and to avoid abusing technologies through the destruction of the society in the novel. The social influence caused by “Y2K” problem also supported his idea of avoid abusing technologies. People should never lose hope even if “Y2K” happened. We are humans, and we are supposed to handle and operate technologies. The society will not collapse unless the technologies completely dominate us just like the way Gray Shteyngart portrays in his novel.