Tomorrowland
The Last Archive
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
For ten episodes, we’ve been asking a big question: Who killed truth? The answer has to do with a change in the elemental unit of knowledge: the fall of the fact, and the rise of data. So, for the last chapter in our investigation, we rented a cherry red convertible, and went to the place all the data goes: Silicon Valley. In our season finale, we reckon with a weird foreshortening of history, the fussiness of old punch cards, the unreality of simulation, and the difficulty of recording audio with the top down on the 101. Hop in.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | Imagine there's a place in our world where the known things go. |
| 0:14.0 | Shelves, stocked with proof, and all around the clutter of clues. |
| 0:19.0 | At this point, it's worse than a clutter. |
| 0:22.0 | It's closer to chaos. |
| 0:24.0 | On the mantle there's a clock, its hands are racing, its works ticking too fast. |
| 0:29.0 | It's like a heart about to burst. |
| 0:32.0 | The phonograph won't stop. And who let all these birds in? |
| 0:38.7 | It's time to get out of here. Rush through the door and out into a cornfield in the middle of Illinois in the year |
| 0:46.6 | 1939 the American Heartland |
| 0:50.7 | Ohh. Holy cow, there's been an explosion in the cornfield! |
| 0:57.0 | The cornfield! |
| 1:00.0 | Ma! |
| 1:04.0 | The devil himself broken loose down in our cornfield. |
| 1:08.0 | He came a roaring and a rampaging right up from the fiery pit, blowing smoke out of his mouth and fire out of his eyes. |
| 1:14.8 | What is going on? |
| 1:16.8 | Pulp science fiction is what? This is a banana's story called The |
| 1:21.2 | Warning From the Past. If it's not enough The Warning from the Past. |
| 1:22.6 | That's not enough trouble to have the radio |
| 1:25.4 | Sir Blatten his full head off right in the middle of my favorite program. |
| 1:30.4 | The Warning from the Past was published in the magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1939. |
| 1:36.0 | Here's what happens. After the explosion in the cornfield, the farmer's wife calls the police. |
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