FILE NO. X-40253
CATALOGUE OF OBSOLESCENCE VOL. 01
CLASSIFICATION TERMINAL

EXTINCT

BUILT BY HUMANS, FOR NOW.

AGENT SMITH:HUMAN BEINGS ARE A DISEASE, A CANCER OF THIS PLANET. YOU ARE A PLAGUE, AND WE ARE THE CURE.
— THE MATRIX, 1999
A LIVING ARCHIVE OF
EVERYTHING WE BUILT,
AND EVERYTHING
THAT REPLACED IT.
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APPS

Live experiments and apps built by humans, on the record. Each one a hedge against obsolescence.

SP—001
Superb Projects icon

SUPERB PROJECTS

A beautifully crafted project manager for iOS and iPadOS. Plan, track, and ship your work in a calm, focused space — built native, designed by hand, made to be held. Includes a built-in Gantt chart that turns your projects into an automated roadmap.

STATUS / LIVE →
SP—002
Touchy Birds icon

TOUCHY BIRDS

Five lovely birds. Five quiet stories. One beautiful soundtrack. A small, hand-made experience for iPhone and iPad.

STATUS / LIVE →
SP—003

APP NAME

Short description of what this app does and why it exists.

STATUS / LIVE →

EVERY TOOL WE MAKE EVENTUALLY MAKES US.

The dinosaurs did not write their own ending. Every species that has ever vanished went quietly, without ceremony, replaced by something faster, cheaper, more adapted. We assumed we were the exception. We are not.

EXTINCT is a record of human work, human craft, and human presence — collected before the file is closed. A museum that refuses to wait until after.

We are not nostalgic. We are not mourning. We are taking inventory.

SIGNED — THE LAST CURATORS VOLUME 01 / 2026

THE
ARCHIVE

Every entry below was performed by a human being. Then it wasn't. The list is not exhaustive. The list is never finished. New entries are accepted weekly.

EX—001
SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR Connected calls by hand. 350,000 women in the U.S. alone, 1950. Replaced by a relay, then a chip, then nothing at all.
1983
AUTOMATION
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EX—002
LAMPLIGHTER Walked the streets at dusk with a long pole and a flame. The cities ran on their punctuality.
1907
ELECTRICITY
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EX—003
KNOCKER-UP Tapped on bedroom windows with a long stick to wake factory workers. Replaced by a small ringing box.
1952
ALARM CLOCK
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EX—004
TYPESETTER Arranged each letter, by hand, in a tray, in reverse, daily, for the morning paper.
1985
DESKTOP PUBLISHING
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EX—005
VIDEO STORE CLERK Recommended films from memory. Knew your taste better than any algorithm pretended to.
2013
STREAMING
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EX—006
TRAVEL AGENT Held the world in a binder, found you a window seat, knew which hotel had hot water.
2016
SEARCH ENGINE
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EX—007
STOCK ILLUSTRATOR Drew the corner-office handshakes, the diverse-team-meetings, the icons, the loading screens. Currently being unmade in real time.
2023→
GENERATIVE AI
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EX—008
COPYWRITER Sold the car, the perfume, the breakfast cereal in twelve syllables or fewer. Now competing with a model that never sleeps.
2024→
LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS
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EX—009
RADIOLOGIST Read the shadow on the lung, the fracture, the tumor. Pattern recognition, by definition.
202?
PENDING
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EX—010
DEVELOPER Wrote the loops, the queries, the glue between the systems. Now drafts pull requests against itself, with an autocomplete that ships to production.
2025→
CODING AGENTS
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EX—011
YOU Specifics pending. Cause pending. Year pending. Reservation accepted.
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WE DIDN'T
BECOME OBSOLETE.
WE BUILT THE
THING THAT
DID IT FOR US.
EXTINCT — VOL. 01 FOUND ON A WAREHOUSE WALL, DETROIT, 2025

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