The Latest for May 19 2024

  For a quickly done episode, this turned out pretty well.  Prompt the first: The First Turning in Set Direction  The article on Variety: https://variety.com/2021/artisans/news/loki-production-design-blade-runner-1235019744/ The Loki series playlist on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxaFrzRPFngWR4Odhwc8BXfJUNjDCPSVf A Boy and His Dog - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072730/ Hello Tomorrow Prompt the Second: The Second Turning in Reality Repo Man and The Decline of Western Civilization Ronald Reagan's Morning In America ad (Amusingly enough, right after that YouTube served up the SNL skit Mastermind.) I said The Best Years of our Lives was 1947 - it was released in 1946. It won the Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 1947 Prompt the third: On Hints of the First "The First is when the Third is thoroughly left behind." - Again, not saying that's true, but it's where this ended up going. IBM was active before WWII, but Wikipedia says that their first electromechanical computer was sold in 1952, so if it feels like a First Turning company, it's probably because it was.