Changing demographic of patients with malignancy and newer therapies may make existing mortality prediction models obsolete.
A prediction: Printed books are obsolete, arty kids collect and treasure them like vinyl, old geezers who refuse to tweet go off to a mountaintop and wander through the forest reciting the books they have "become".
It is true that some predictions of identity conflict now seem obsolete; feminist theories stressing how women reason differently from men, for example, have by and large given way to liberal ideas about gender equality.
Tentatively titled "Being There," that show was to take note of the remarkable array of new places of public assembly and spectacle around the globe, upending predictions that such buildings would become obsolete in a post-millennial technological age.
So has been the fate of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, despite the endless predictions of the "failure" of an "obsolete" NATO, especially several recent broadsides from the Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump.
He concludes with a prediction: the term "niche" will become obsolete in the same way "sellout" did.
In a statement earlier this week, Amazon said that Kindle device sales have accelerated every month of the last quarter, despite naysayers' predictions that the gadget would be rendered obsolete by Apple's iPad.
Parsons and Forman were unfazed, informing Haley of their prediction that the rocket industry would become obsolete in the postwar age and seeing more financial incentive in starting a chain of laundromats.
"If people like Sean Maloney were to be right in their predictions that the Internet will render linear television obsolete, then this would go against the entire half-millennium history of mass media.
The rollout of MOOCs, or massive open online courses, three years ago by some of the country's leading universities triggered predictions that bricks-and-mortar campuses would soon be obsolete and that learning would be forever changed.
But many academics dismiss Dr. Schank's prediction that traditional teaching methods will soon become obsolete and question software learning's pedagogic value.
