Extinction Timeline
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The document outlines a timeline of events and societal changes from 1950 to 2050, highlighting various cultural, technological, and historical milestones. It presents a whimsical collection of items and concepts that may become obsolete or less significant in the future. The timeline serves as a reflection on the evolving nature of society and is meant to be taken lightly.
Extinction Timeline
- 1. Extinction timeline* 1950-2050 * Existence insignificant beyond this date Sit down breakfasts POST OFFIcES WW2 John F Kennedy SMALLPOX BERLIN WALL Repair shops Direct marketing Great Barrier Reef Ties PHYSIcAL NEWSPAPERS DEATH Elvis Communism Phone boxes Butchers KEYS Blindness Soviet Union MENDING THINGS Free parking Childhood GOOGLE Exchange controls (UK) WW1 survivors Reality TV WW1 Czar Nicholas II SIZE O Manned moon landings Libraries Primitive forms of money Unfenced beaches Trade Unions Static ads George Bush II Secretaries Vacuum tubes CFCs Keynesian economics Secrets National currencies Lindsay Lohan DVD Lunch A good night’s sleep Betamax Low doc mortgages Passenger airships Village shops FM radio Bank notes LETTER WRITING Russian democracy Wallets Space Invaders Tony Blair Crafts people Kingdom of Greece Kurt Cobain Text-based search Inheritance tax Free public spaces NATION STATES Studio 54 BRITISH EMPIRE Intimacy Carbon emissions Sinclair C5 Affordable housing Barings Bank BlackBerries Deafness Milkmen Real handkerchiefs Pluto Persia Tower Records Prussia Wire recorders 8-track RETIREMENT Wrinkles Cheap oil Disco PRIVAcY The next big thing Kim Jong II European Union Futurists Apartheid Normal weather “SORRY” WW2 survivors Ottoman Empire Big political ideas Green screens Public intellectuals Vladimir Putin Cher Customer service Free roads Punch cards Computer mouse 78-rpm records Wooden toys Waistlines Over the counter cocaine PEAcE & QuIET Telephone directories AM radio Cosmetic surgery Issac Asimov Sunday lunch State pensions DESKTOP cOMPuTERS Philip K. Dick Concorde Receptionists GLAcIERS East Pakistan Polaroids Work free weekends British Royalty PHYSIcAL PAIN Yugoslavia Paris Hilton Natural childbirth DDT Bone phone uGLYNESS Jim Morrison John Lennon Careers Open borders Gold Standard (US) GETTING LOST Chernobyl WEB 2.0 PETROL ENGINED VEHIcLES Imperial measurement (UK) Eleven European currencies The Maldives Addiction Pacman Paternity disputes Video rental stores SPELLING Lists of predictions Manual typewriters Internal EU passport controls Fax machines BLOGGING Aral sea Segway Low-cost travel Buckteeth Bangladesh Jimi Hendrix Manchu Dynasty OIL Janis Joplin NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY Titanic Microsoft Get Smart Habeas corpus Taiwan TWA CRT television The Middle class “Thank you” cOPYRIGHT Household chores Steam locomotive Douglas Adams Spam Enron Corporation Newspaper delivery Aboriginal culture Arthur Anderson DIAL-uP Rocky films Chinese Imperial family EMAIL The family room Buggy whips INNOcENcE Hope cOINS Love bites Landline telephones Swiss Army knives John Howard Queen Victoria Princess Diana Advertising regulation B&W television Ashtrays Telex 35mm projectors 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 1 1 www.futuretrendsbook.com This map is published under a Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alive 2.5 License Predicted Death Date ** ** Not to be taken too seriously