But as Obioma's novel makes clear, this assumption overlooks the vastness of these immigrant journeys, in which the silencing effect of shame, failure and poverty effectively renders technological advance almost irrelevent.
Many of the prevailing ethical issues are accentuated in the pediatric research context, and render the technological innovations in genetics 'a blessing and a curse, a real Pandora's Box', as one respondent maintained.
One room is filled with books, much of their knowledge rendered obsolete by technological advances; in another, a series of equations – all measuring change – are being painstakingly written on a wall; and in a third, old lab coats and used coffee cups lie around, traces of those who once worked here.
There are also dozens of personal journals, one of which, from a trip to Tokyo, records the artist wondering why "apartheid, persecution of homosexuals, nuclear disaster, starvation, poverty" have not been rendered obsolete by technological advances.Haring's style has long been celebrated for its radical simplicity, though its messages are anything but.
But the executives are not denying that the threat of a new licensing requirement could help them achieve another goal: eliminating a small but expensive class of workers in the union -- master mechanics and oilers -- whose jobs, they say, were long ago rendered obsolete by technological advances.
But the executives are not denying that the threat of a new licensing requirement could help them achieve another goal: eliminating a small but expensive class of workers in the union — master mechanics and oilers — whose jobs, they say, were long ago rendered obsolete by technological advances.
Robin Wood characterizes Leatherface and his family as victims of industrial capitalism, their jobs as slaughterhouse workers having been rendered obsolete by technological advances.
Sales of digital cameras did not begin to gather momentum for at least ten years, and sales continued to be modest for another decade, during which the relentless pace of technological improvement rendered products obsolete within a year.
While they continued to be manufactured and used in the sport during the ensuing decades, companies like Nike and Reebok started to make large impacts in basketball shoe sales and their technological advancements rendered Converse obsolete.
Meanwhile, job skills are more quickly rendered obsolete by accelerating technological development, and education level is more determinative of income than ever before.
