Maybe. Hmmm, in general, very much not a "Maker" attitude. Think about how much fun it would be to recast it into that sort of upbeat "survival in style" etho

Maybe. Hmmm, in general, very much not a "Maker" attitude. Think about how much fun it would be to recast it into that sort of upbeat "survival in style" ethos. Low power micro-controllers and ARM devices would be even more popular! One form of bragging rights would go to the teens who fashion the lowest power dissipation 1080p shelter media system ^_^. I see from Dick's Wikipedia personal life section that he is almost certainly a city boy through and through, which would explain a lot of this story. As for particulars, ignoring the arms-race part of it, really good basic fallout shelters are ridiculously low tech, the sort of thing people in flyover country are supremely competent to make without any fuss---and most of us don't get caught up in the next year model craziness (E.g. my parents bought a very high end Mercedes in ~1990 ... and sold it this year; they are, of course, members of the Silent Generation). If you need blast protection, then the doors and vents require more serious stuff that's best produced in a factory to standard designs. As for the new sophisticated threat from the Soviets in that story, no, I think not. Very much not in their style.