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Welcome to the Fallout lore cast,

the podcast that explores the boundaries of our knowledge about the world of Fallout.

So here's an interesting concept, something that occurs to me regularly when I'm looking at the world building in video games or fantasy stories or whatever, especially when we extrapolate into the future

or potential futures.

And here's an example to get you started.

Imagine you're looking at the skyline of New York City in 1940.

What do you see?

Well, you see a lot of smaller buildings because the skyline wasn't as tall almost 100 years ago, what, 85 years ago.

But you also do see some buildings that are taller. There are some skyscrapers, and those skyscrapers are designed in a style from the early 20th century. Now jump ahead 50 years, 1990. What do you see on that

skyline? You see lots of more modern buildings, glass skyscrapers, but among them are the older

buildings. Just because new technology comes around that allows you to construct taller and different-looking buildings that are more modern, doesn't mean that you get rid of the older buildings.

The Empire State Building, for example, still has its use.

It would be silly to take down that entire building in order to just build a newer version of it.

That would be a big waste of money.

And it still functions for something that is still needed. You jump ahead another number of years and the same

thing happens. You see newer buildings crop up, but a lot of the old buildings are still there.

This is the way technology proceeds. Whenever I see a futuristic film with a futuristic city, and yet there isn't dotted

among the futuristic buildings older styles, it hits me as odd.

What happened to those older buildings?

Was there some sort of cataclysmic event that cleared all of them?

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