The leading theory on the 50’s aesthetics is that the culture progressed as it did in our timeline (plus tweaks due to inventing the transistor in the 2060s), but as the resources began to dwindle and fascism heighten in the US, there was a neo-retro aesthetic movement. This is backed by references to the hippie movement in New Vegas, among other things.
I thought that was the main reason it looks like the 50s. The tech is bulky because it has to be, it’s full of valves. Communications networks also suffer, reinforcing the kinds of bigotry characteristic of America in the 50s
The leading theory on the 50’s aesthetics is that the culture progressed as it did in our timeline (plus tweaks due to inventing the transistor in the 2060s), but as the resources began to dwindle and fascism heighten in the US, there was a neo-retro aesthetic movement. This is backed by references to the hippie movement in New Vegas, among other things.
I thought that was the main reason it looks like the 50s. The tech is bulky because it has to be, it’s full of valves. Communications networks also suffer, reinforcing the kinds of bigotry characteristic of America in the 50s
Yes, but culturally as well.