James Gleick

A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in the way we think about the world, our history, our logic, mathematics, you name it. I think we would be greatly diminished as a people and as a culture if the book became obsolete.

American Author

Yuval Noah Harari

Traditionally, life has been divided into two main parts: a period of learning followed by a period of working. Very soon, this traditional model will become utterly obsolete, and the only way for humans to stay in the game will be to keep learning throughout their lives and to reinvent themselves repeatedly.

Israeli Historian

Adora Svitak

To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.

Carol S. Dweck

Business leaders who openly acknowledge people's concerns about becoming obsolete and who invest resources in workers' growth can help create a nation of learners - and perhaps resolve some of the political chaos that's bubbling around us.

American Educator

Paul Polman

My own fear, if I have one myself, is a fear of being obsolete. This is a world that changes very fast, and one of the main human desires is to belong to, to be part of, something. It's probably one of our greatest needs next to oxygen.

Dutch Businessman

Jeff Bezos

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

American Businessman

Roger Penrose

If the computer-guided robots turn out to be our superiors in every respect, then will they not find that they can run the world better without the need of us at all? Humanity itself will then have become obsolete.

English Physicist

Rich Sommer

I'm pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if it's become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier - all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic I'm interested in.

American Actor

John Torode

There is no way in the world that a vacuum cleaner will ever be obsolete - they use them for swimming pools, they use them for houses, they use them for industrial purposes. They're fantastic things.

Australian Chef

Robert Kiyosaki

My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Often used to describe tech advances where new inventions make older ones not needed.

Technological Evolution

Used when items can't be fixed due to a lack of parts or knowledge.

No Repairs

Sometimes, newer models or updates intentionally make previous versions obsolete.

Forced Obsolescence

Use for objects or practices outdated due to modern alternatives or evolution.

Historical Context

In rapidly advancing fields, 'obsolete' shows how quickly something becomes outdated.

Rapid Change

Highlights problems using old versions with new systems or requirements.

Compatibility Issues

Use when styles or designs are no longer fashionable or popular.

Changing Trends

Products not selling because they're out of trend or demand can be called obsolete.

Not Marketable

 The modern day is exactly the same thing. The world is filled with danger, things that are trying to frustrate our lives or reduce our success, reduce our opportunity for success. It could be the ups and downs in the economy, the uncertainty of the stock market. It could be a new technology that renders your business model obsolete overnight.

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 like there are still people living today that would have worked here and relatives of those people. It's crazy to think and you'd think that when these places go into disrepair, disuse, no one uses them anymore they become kind of obsolete and unimportant. But this is now been turned literally a few weeks ago,

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 Interfacing primarily with computer systems might create an impression that the human factor, elected politicians and participating in democratic processes is somehow less important. And there are also some people who feel threatened by pervasive technology that might make their skills obsolete.

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 sent in since it's in this theme of Technology wants to know if technology which is making exploring an exploration better and easier and giving us new insights but will technology make hands on exploring in real life obsolete or we all be able to do like Bob and sit in

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 But antibiotic resistance represents just as big of a threat. We are feeding massive doses of antibiotics to farm animals. These antibiotics are then mutating into superbugs that threaten to render antibiotics obsolete within all of our lifetimes. You want a scare?

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 and has grown obsolete in light of dramatic advancements in actuators, control systems and neural interfacing technologies. A major deficiency is the lack of dynamic muscle interactions for control and proprioception. What is proprioception?

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 brunch, or internet. And unlike borrowings from other languages, these can often be understood the first time you hear them. And sometimes a new word isn't new at all. Obsolete words gain new life by adopting new meanings.

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 but what part of the street. This level of accuracy has unleashed a firestorm of innovation. In fact, many of you navigated here today with the help of your TomTom or your smartphone. Paper maps are becoming obsolete.

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 and what are we going to do next if we ever are going to do anything else with it? So that's a pretty strong comment there. I said schools as we know them now, they're obsolete. I'm not saying they're broken.

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 that sense keeping our cities complex but incomplete is I think essential otherwise we will have a lot of dead obsolete cities thank you very much