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