Comic Transcript

ALEX: Phil?

PHIL: Well, today I'm the metaphysical equivalent of your future self.

ALEX: What?

PHIL: Yeah. I'm working for a colleague of the Boss, sort of as a penance for e-mailing Fooker our source code. Most of the time I create programs that model a subject's future, and they send in "ghosts" based on that program in order to give people like you a message.

ALEX: Most of the time?

PHIL: You wouldn't compile. Consider me a "conceptual recreation for demonstration purposes."