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Raygun Gothic

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Raygun Gothic refers to any creative work from 1900 through about 1959, predicting the future before it became possible. Think rockets and rayguns, flying cars and futuristic cities - especially if the vision never quite panned out in reality. We find this aesthetic in product design, book covers, films, radio & TV. "A tomorrow that never was". The same style as in the Fallout games, The Jetsons and so on but focused on the time period through the 50s.

See also: Raygun Gothic at TVTropes

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[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is this one of those things that when you start trying to make it feasible ends up with trains?

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah this looks exactly like a train ride in a corridor coach. Actually it's probably similar to a flight on a golden-age-of-aviation airline too. Crazy what can be done with economies of scale applied to transportation, eh?