1. Future of Resources
Somya Jampala
Project 2
Design Fictions and Imagined Futures, Spring 2013
Carnegie Mellon University

2. 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
Extinct resources in the future
This map is published under a Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alive 2.5 License
Predicted Death Date **
** Not to be taken too seriously

3. “Tangible” extinct resources in the future

6. “Intangible” resources in the future?

10. Future of languages?
There are almost 7000 languages in the world.
Half will die in the 21st century.
One language dies every two weeks.

11. What if ?
We don't need one speaking language to talk to each other?
What if English becomes a global language but differs in dialects?
What if "code" becomes a global language?

12. EVERYONE should learn how to code - code.org, codeacademy, scratch

13. But why?
Its liberating.
Computer is going to stay in future.
It teaches how to solve a problem.

14. Future scenario
https://vimeo.com/62159131

15. 1. ommunicate with products
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Products will become more and more human.
Humans will communicate more in code.

16. 2. ake decisions with code
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Use code to take simple decisions.
Solving everyday problems with code.

17. Chang:
Calculate Dinner.venue
Jeff:
Enter venues
Chang:
Set venues = Restaurant[3]
venues = [Crepevine, Pizzeria, Mexican Grill]
Arun:
Error, I went to Crepevine for breakfast.
Jeff:
Set votes = int[2]
votes[Pizzeria] = 0
votes[Mexican Grill] = 0
While (votes[Pizzeria] 2 votes[Mexican Grill] 2) take_vote;
Arun:
votes[Pizzeria]++
Chang:
votes [Pizzeria]++
Jeff:
Loop end reached. Goto Pizzeria.

18. 3. hink in code
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Think different situations more logically.
And less emotionally.

19. What’s your opinion about
future of code?

20. References
Google images
Coffee Extinction In The Wild, Spurred By Climate Change, Could Occur By 2080, Study Says
Dying cultures: to save or not to save?
6 Important Things You Didn't Know We're Running Out Of
Extinction Timeline: what will disappear from our lives before 2050
Endangered languages
The future of languages
How ready are we for languages of the future
Code.org
Brazilian Java Man Bruno Souza