Cynical Capitalist
The portfolio, snapshots of memorabilia and artifacts in the collection
Economic Darwinism
Gone extinct
This section simply lists famous companies or industries that once dominated and have all but gone extinct since, often in dramatic fashion:
- Print media (Newsweek print edition, News of the World, etc.)
- Fuller Brushes, the company that started and symbolised door to door sales
- PanAm and TWA airlines, who fell to plane crashes and the commoditization of air travel
- Kodak and Polaroid, once icons in photography, who failed in the transition to digital
- F.W. Woolworth, who fell to the transitiion from Main Street to the shopping mall era
- Tower Records, who fell from the rise of digital music, both legal and otherwise
- Circuit City, who fell to online retailer like Amazon.com
- Blockbuster Video, who fell to online downloads and on-demand videos
- Pan American Airlines
- News of the World
- NewsWeek print edition
- KodaK
