The process of becoming obsolete

Usage examples of obsolescence.

Apart from this feature the Trichoptera also differ from the typical Neuroptera in the relatively simple, mostly longitudinal neuration of the wings, the absence or obsolescence of the mandibles and the semi-haustellate nature of the rest of the mouth-parts.

Planned obsolescence has disappeared, so far as the prole is concerned.

The essential change in the social fabric, as we have analyzed it, is the progressive supersession of the old broad labour base by elaborately organized mechanism, and the obsolescence of the once valid and necessary distinction of gentle and simple.

The obsolescence of those old organicist and holistic myths opens the way to strange new social and political arrangements.

But so far, this has not been a very significant amount, certainly not enough to compensate for the continued erosion of Iraq's training, leadership, combat experience, and logistical capabilities along with the growing obsolescence of its equipment.

The tendency toward shorter relational durations is thus built more deeply into the social structure than arguments over planned obsolescence or the manipulative effectiveness of Madison Avenue would suggest.

Furthermore, production by assembly line creates a fundamental need for planned obsolescence or else the assembly line, by its own efficiency, would fill the needs of everyone in the market and be forced to shut down.

And the paperback revolution, by making inexpensive editions available everywhere, lessens the scarcity value of the book at precisely the very moment that the increasingly rapid obsolescence of knowledge lessens its longterm informational value.

Precisely by virtue of their obsolescence, calls to subjective agency, or to collective imagination and mobilization, merely reinforce the feedback loops of normalizing power.

These needs are not as simply described as the critics of planned obsolescence sometimes assume.

Any scientist or engineer who came up with some scheme for planned obsolescence, we'd toss in the slammer.

Some of its guts, we'll say, were designed with planned obsolescence in mind.

In a world of planned obsolescence, Vivienne took pleasure in getting long, full use out of everything that she bought, whether it was a toaster or an automobile.

For those few who passed, there awaited a reward, an afterlife not only experientially superior to life but free of life's planned obsolescence.

Even with planned obsolescence, it would last as long as he'd need it.