Sujit's Blackberry Curve died on June 15 , 2013 after losing a long battle against planned obsolescence.
It was that the personal computing industry, in its traditional form, wasn't going to make a long graceful slide into obsolescence, but rather, was about to fall off a cliff.
Jobs talked down the importance of the optical drive, another in a long like of Apple-spurred obsolescence — in this case, the company was right on target there.
So when AI comes, Asoro worries, it could just be one more in a long line of technologies that show up in society and toss aspects of our lives that we value into the dumpster of obsolescence.
Due to its small size, its age and perceived obsolescence, Grand Central was the target of a long-term political effort by the city government to encourage consolidation of passenger terminals in the south Loop.
To design a long-term home for a tech company is a paradoxical feat: the industry, almost by definition, deals in rapid obsolescence and uncertain fates.
Relentless innovation in the industry had led to falling prices and the growing technical obsolescence of the company's products, which produced a short-term squeeze on cash flow and a long-term threat to the company's survival.
Although the long-run obsolescence rate for hotel properties of 1.93%/year aligns closely with the rate estimated elsewhere for retail properties, the path of obsolescence through time shows some marked departures.
For nearly twenty years, Dean has been celebrated and chastised as a chronicler of obsolescence, a maker of exquisite art about dying things: shipwrecks, abandoned buildings, aging artists, technologies long past their prime.
Radjabov defeated Beljavsky with a variation that many consider to have reached obsolescence long ago.
