I'm all in favour of defying outdated age-related "rules" (such as leather biker jackets, skinny jeans and red lipstick), but my situation is about more than my personal preferences and neuroses.
Sure, I can be irritating, and sometimes my voice has a certain lazy boarding-school drawl, and once in a while I use outdated teen-age slang, like "gnarly" and "rad".
"No matter what kind of business you're in, it's time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks and outdated, industrial-age thinking".
Now the Bush administration is arguing that such a purely defensive policy has become outdated in an age of international terrorism, rogue states and unconventional weapons.
The idea of orchestras retaining a national stamp is largely outdated in an age of international music-making, when top-flight orchestras routinely recruit players from around the globe.
Administrators invested in a costly new hospital because they worried that their organization, which today is in sound financial condition, would have eventually been dragged down by the burden of sustaining an aging, outdated building in a community that does not have enough paying patients to support it.
They will not be tamed in the sense of outdated traditions around aging, and collectively they will bring new meaning to this life-stage while stimulating reinvention of the businesses and brands that serve them.
They may be outdated in the digital age, but they have telephone wiring and are often supplied with electricity.
Malcolm Turnbull has signalled his support for easing cross-media ownership laws, suggesting platform-specific rules are outdated in the internet age.
"George proves that how we view age is outdated," says Shoven.
Many state level policies are outdated relics from the age of centralized and inefficient utilities with great influence over the electricity grid.
