However, clinical dominance does not necessarily mean obsolete medical science.
Then again, 100 years can make even the best works of science obsolete.
Maddox declared science fiction obsolete in his essay "Fictional Reality" and was roundly criticized in the blogosphere, most notably by Scientific American's J.R. Minkel.
In the past few decades, medical science has rendered obsolete centuries of experience, tradition, and language about our mortality, and created a new difficulty for mankind: how to die.
It was the inverse of the tomb to the unknown soldier, which had become nearly obsolete, thanks to improved forensic science and record keeping, or so it seemed until Sept. 11.
For Bacon, Aristotle's cosmology, as well as his theory of science, had become obsolete and consequently so too had many of the medieval thinkers who followed his lead.
Similarly, film critic Michel Ciment in his essay "Odyssey of Stanley Kubrick" stated "Kubrick has conceived a film which in one stroke has made the whole science fiction cinema obsolete".
For the past four years, a group of writers and researchers has compiled the Dead Media Project, an online archive of obsolete technology started by two science-fiction writers, Richard Kadrey and Bruce Sterling.
For the health care sector, in particular, the ability to learn is essential since knowledge and skills can rapidly become obsolete due to the continuous evolution in science and medicine [ 9].
In other words, in the cultural universe of Harry Potter, social sciences are as useless and obsolete as state regulation.
It made obsolete the sleek white-room futures of earlier science fiction films.
