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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.
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Interesting that there’s no billboards, or gas stations, or anything of the sort in this illustration.
In a perfect world, we never leave our cars. We are just eternally with our friends and family on our racing living rooms. Passing cars deliver your amenities and you simply relieve yourself out the window. The future of a road-only world awaits!
That's the plot line of the Doctor Who episode called Gridlock.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock_(Doctor_Who)
The episode is set five billion years in the future on the planet New Earth, the remainder of humanity on the planet live in perpetual gridlock within the Motorway, a highway system beneath the city state of New New York.