After that, get your obsolete first-generation Kindle.
Museums, as custodians of the collection for the past and future, will have to take great care in ensuring they don't become obsolete for the generation of cultural consumers to come.
Changes in fashion trends, such as pantyhose and the rise of the miniskirt, rendered the girdle unattractive and obsolete to a generation of women.
Even if two thirds of the original innovations are adaptive ones, and only one item in twenty becomes garbled or obsolete in each generation, their model tells us that if the average innovation hangs around for more than about seven generations, cultural learning itself becomes maladaptive.
Apple devotees can never be sure when the next device is coming until the moment it does, and when that moment comes, the new iGadget always seems to arrive with some new feature set that makes the previous generation obsolete or lacking in some obvious way (Think Siri, or an iPhone with 3G, or an iPad with cameras, etc).
Regulation won't be the answer, unfortunately, because in the same way that generals are always preparing to fight the last war, regulators are always aiming their guns at last year's problem, which will be generations obsolete by the time their prescriptions finally come into force.
But he may soon be obsolete: The most recent generation of kickers and punters seems to have made a philosophical choice to reject its reputation and dive into the pile.
However, when the generation of obsolete proteins exceeds the capacity of the cell to degrade them, there is a progressive accumulation of damaged proteins, which often become insoluble over time and are potentially toxic to cells [9].
But the promise of Big Data is also accompanied by claims that "the scientific method itself is becoming obsolete" (2), as next-generation computers, such as IBM's Watson (3), sift through the digital world to provide predictive models based on massive information.
If Brown and Post are successful, the global meat industry may find itself in the same position as the makers of fax machines and typewriters were a generation ago, rendered obsolete by a new and better technology.
