Extinction timeline

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Extinction timeline* 1950-2050 * Existence insignificant beyond this date Sit down breakfasts WW2

SMALLPOX

John F Kennedy

BERLIN WALL

Elvis

Communism Soviet Union Exchange controls (UK)

WW1 Czar Nicholas II

Great Barrier Reef

Direct marketing Butchers Free parking WW1 survivors

MENDING THINGS

PHYSICAL NEWSPAPERS

Ties

KEYS

DEATH

Blindness

GOOGLE

Childhood Reality TV

SIZE O Libraries Unfenced beaches Static ads

Manned moon landings

Primitive forms of money

Vacuum tubes Keynesian economics

George Bush II

CFCs

Space Invaders Studio 54 Sinclair C5

Kingdom of Greece

Persia Prussia

Tony Blair

BRITISH EMPIRE

Affordable housing Milkmen Pluto Tower Records

Barings Bank

8-track Disco

Wire recorders Cheap oil

LETTER WRITING

Kurt Cobain

PRIVACY

78-rpm records

Over the counter cocaine

Issac Asimov East Pakistan DDT Jim Morrison Gold Standard (US) Imperial measurement (UK)

Open borders

Yugoslavia John Lennon Chernobyl Pacman Manual typewriters

Jimi Hendrix Janis Joplin Get Smart

Manchu Dynasty Titanic

Habeas corpus TWA Douglas Adams Enron Corporation Arthur Anderson

Chinese Imperial family

Innocence Hope Love bites Swiss Army knives

Queen Victoria

Princess Diana B&W television Telex 35mm projectors

1950

1960

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GETTING LOST

Eleven European currencies Paternity disputes Internal EU passport controls Segway

1980

1990

2000

European Union “SORRY” Vladimir Putin

Free roads Waistlines AM radio

Video rental stores Fax machines

WEB 2.0 The Maldives

Futurists WW2 survivors Cher

Cosmetic surgery

GLACIERS

PHYSICAL PAIN UGLYNESS

British Royalty Natural childbirth

PETROL ENGINED VEHICLES Addiction

SPELLING BLOGGING

Lists of predictions

Aral sea Low-cost travel Bangladesh

Buckteeth CRT television “Thank you” Newspaper delivery

NATION STATES

PEACE & QUIET

Telephone directories DESKTOP COMPUTERS State pensions Receptionists Work free weekends Paris Hilton

NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY

Steam locomotive Buggy whips

Concorde Polaroids Bone phone Careers

Wrinkles Kim Jong II

RETIREMENT The next big thing Big political ideas Customer service Computer mouse

Sunday lunch

Philip K. Dick

National currencies A good night’s sleep Bank notes Wallets Free public spaces Carbon emissions Deafness

Lunch FM radio Crafts people Inheritance tax Intimacy

BlackBerries Real handkerchiefs

Normal weather Public intellectuals Punch cards Wooden toys

Apartheid Green screens

Ottoman Empire

Trade Unions

Secretaries Secrets DVD Village shops Russian democracy Text-based search

Lindsay Lohan Low doc mortgages

Betamax

Passenger airships

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POST OFFICES

Repair shops Phone boxes

Oil Microsoft The Middle class Spam Aboriginal culture Rocky films

Taiwan

COPYRIGHT

Dial-up Email

Household chores

The family room

COINS

Landline telephones John Howard Advertising regulation Ashtrays

2010

2020

2030

2040

2050

Predicted Death Date ** ** Not to be taken too seriously


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