And what is popular today might be outdated in a few months.
In the dot-com area, things can be outdated in six months.
Policy changes have been long expected by passengers, increasingly frustrated by rules seen as outdated in a tech-driven world.
They may be outdated in the digital age, but they have telephone wiring and are often supplied with electricity.
Dot-matrix printers, outdated in most of the world, are one of the few electronic products that India manufactures.
"Apple's Long-Awaited Shift on Music" (editorial, Jan . 9 seems a bit outdated in its characterizations of the music industry.
Naturally there's a lot of technological jargon and inevitably some of it will be outdated in a few years' time.
While the traditional Anglo-Saxon names we once accorded with prose mastery are outdated in a world of Junots and Téas, certain tried-and-true guidelines remain.
The network of stores - which seem outdated in the on-demand era of Netflix - could become a platform to reach new Dish Network customers and handle service issues.
This approach to politics feels as outdated in today's world as Tamagotchis and dancing the Macarena - the long discarded relics of the 1990s.
When you talk to employers, they aren't really focused on skills that can be easily taught, and might be outdated in five years.
