In 2021, I wrote a post about Fortran popular imagery. Ten years ago, you would have still found a lot of punched cards and IBM 704 in Google Images when typing “Fortran”. The situation has now much improved. But thinking that a young generation of Fortran developers could create a new imagery (steam punk, retro-futurist or other), using the new AI generative tools sounds quite exciting!
Concerning the Science-Fiction of the 50’s, I can imagine the advanced martians of Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles (1950) using Fortran, by telepathy…