Man of the Century 1999 Johnny Twennies, a newspaper columnist in present day New York, is a jauntily cheerful, very friendly, totally honest and upstanding young man who happens to be completely oblivious to any technological or social changes in the past 70 years He routinely uses telegrams, a manual typewriter, and a manual toaster, and to the pleasure and despair of his girlfriend conducts his personal life in correspondingly anachronistic style One day hes threatened by criminals who want to plant a false news story But theyve never met anyone like him before