1950s retro-futurism a reality?

How can I get a 1950s-80s period in the United States to look something like a moderate 50s version of the future?

By moderate I mean more realistic things as opposed to ridiculous stuff/cliches such as flying cars and private rocket ships. Basically a period of massive urbanization and technological development.

Something like this:
Retro-Futurism+City+1.jpg
 
Most of it would be aesthetics, most of the actual technology in '50s retro-futures is either inefficient or impossible. Flying cars are just not safe or practical, home robots are on the way out because people don't need to keep a perfect home because that way of society is changing, the social pressures are about to erupt in the '60s and it's hard to delay that for more than a decade.

The '50s was a doomed period of glamour and decadence.

Edit: However, atomic power dominating the energy market is very possible and plausible, what the '50s did wrong was ignorance of how it works and assuming everything with and engine would have it's own nuclear reactor.

Edit Edit: Nothing in that picture is impossible or wildly implausible.
 
May I suggest you look at the Fallout series. It is basically a rendition of a world where the people's idea of the future in the 1950s became reality.
 
Edit: However, atomic power dominating the energy market is very possible and plausible, what the '50s did wrong was ignorance of how it works and assuming everything with and engine would have it's own nuclear reactor.

Edit Edit: Nothing in that picture is impossible or wildly implausible.

Maybe with some trains & planes, but autos? Highly unlikely.
 
Home robots ARE actualy on the rise... They are a part of an answer to problems like the lack of those helpers workers in places like elderly and handicaped residences, and the general growing age and solitude of peoples in occident...

They just wont look like retro-science-fiction made it like.
 
allot of Technical proposal of 1950 "died"

lack of interest by politician and investors
other like VTOL LTV XC-142 cancel because lack of money
or are stop by Secretary of State McNamara
like Doomsday weapon Pluto or Nuclear puls engine or Dyna-Soar

much Program are victims of manager
like ITT Corporation with a major telecommunications and electronics company.
that was until 1961 Harold Geneen became CEO of ITT
He move the corporation to insurance, hotels, real estate management
one of Geneen victims was the The Farnsworth–Hirsch Fusor
a experimental nuclear fusion reactor ITT was working on.

wat i want to say is:
This TL is more about personal decisions on Projects
no about technical problems...
 
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