A colleague I'm going to be working closely with lives in New Zealand which means when we meet it'll always be tomorrow for him so he can tell me the future

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New Years eve 1999 fell on a Friday, I was in a meeting in the office when 5:00pm, US West Coast, rolled around. As we were wrapping up I impulsively said, "what say we find out what the 21st century is like?" And phoned a friend on his cell phone in London, where it was around 1am. He was in a club and somewhat the worse for drink but I put him on speaker anyway. He picked up his cue as I knew he would and started talking about the flying cars and the despotic global supercomputer...

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