"I would love for it to become obsolete".
Isn't a major goal of a parent to become obsolete?
But oil is too useful to become obsolete any time soon, and gas is relatively clean.
It did not take long for the personal letter to become obsolete.
The reason was that, as any computer buyer knows, a more powerful machine takes longer to become obsolete.
Skilled workers are needed to apply and manage new technologies, while less skilled workers are more likely to become obsolete.
There are drawbacks, of course, to putting files onto a storage medium that is likely to become obsolete.
To become obsolete: The cassette Walkman, which Sony first produced in 1979 and stopped manufacturing this year.
Buggy whips, used to prod the horses harnessed to wagons and carriages, started to become obsolete when automobiles appeared in the late 19th century.
In Vernor Vinge's version of Southern California in 2025, there is a school named Fairmont High with the motto, "Trying hard not to become obsolete".
In the nineteen-twenties, an engineer's "half life of knowledge" — the time it took for half of his expertise to become obsolete — was thirty-five years.
