Growing up, I remember watching television shows like Space 1999 and films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and thinking what a wonderful place the world would be at the turn of the millennium. I accepted that, being in my early thirties on the momentous event, I would be near-geriatric when the clock finally ticked over to the new age, but I hoped to retain enough of my faculties to fully appreciate anantiseptic, computer-controlled world, where all the walls were white and padded and for some reason people only wore one-piece jumpsuits.

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