Now humans will be able to join the robots’ neural network, with all minds united and learning becoming as simple as integrating the information, “I know kung-fu”-style. His Kollectiv network has seen robots go from clunky, industrial designs to a networked group of uncanny-valley humanoid mechs, and the day for the announcement of Kollectiv 2.0 is finally at hand. The sun is shining and the townspeople are celebrating the next great scientific advancement from the brilliant mind of Doctor Sechenov. It’s a beautiful day in the Russia of 1955. If the US can wallow in this kind of rose-tinted nostalgia, it seems only fair that other countries get to as well, and Atomic Heart is set in a Utopian alternate history of 1950s Russia. Cars had fins, chrome was everywhere, the space race was starting, and so long as you lucked into being part of the right social group, the future seemed filled with boundless possibilities.

It’s probably got something to do with recovering from World War II, but whatever the reason may be, the style of the time was amazing. There’s something about the 1950s that seems to make a country go all romantic.

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