Even the most seemingly omnipresent of icons usually become obsolete.
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It's also a future where racism and sexism have become obsolete.
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The vibrant digital artifacts created using the technology would soon become obsolete.
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If we don't iterate every few months, we'll become obsolete in social.
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When parking garages do become obsolete, the cost of converting them varies.
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Just because Swiffers are relevant doesn't mean brooms have to become obsolete.
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Elon Musk says we need to merge with AI, or become obsolete.
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HP: I think coding will be the last profession to become obsolete.
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I make a stream of products that are designed to become obsolete.
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Software without an added layer of data and insights will soon become obsolete.
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That doesn't mean dinner parties have become obsolete in 22012: They've just evolved.
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Here are nine things that have become obsolete in the past 20 years.
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Will human creativity become obsolete in this machine managed future rapidly enveloping us?
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Nowadays, tech moves so quickly that your current hardware can become obsolete rather quickly.
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He said "Cold War mentality" and arrogance had become obsolete and would be repudiated.
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Because the only things that don't become obsolete in The Division are crafting materials.
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It's unclear whether the shape will become obsolete following the introduction of the triquandle.
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At this point, a large number of the conventional car fleet could become obsolete.
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For a moment, it seemed inevitable that e-ink devices would soon become obsolete.
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On the open road, however, it may take longer before steering wheels become obsolete.
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These are 14 household items that will become obsolete over the next 10 years.
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These are the household items that will become obsolete within the next 10 years.
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If we are identified with a certain role, then it does indeed become obsolete.
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If our thesis on that is right, then all the existing drones become obsolete.
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Words that had threatened to become obsolete are passed down as elders recognize them.
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With long-term space travel, tech aboard a ship would occasionally break, become obsolete, etc.
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Expertise in the IT industry erodes fast as software programs are upgraded or become obsolete.
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Tech cuts both ways, though: I'm nervous about building factories that may quickly become obsolete.
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When new technologies appear and old ones become obsolete, it should still work with everything.
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Those footnotes, he said, have become obsolete as courts have grown accustomed to transgender litigants.
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Many passengers bring their own devices nowadays, and seatback entertainment systems can quickly become obsolete.
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And the jobs of 10 years ago often required skills that have since become obsolete.
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And when these lockdown systems become obsolete, it creates a whole new set of problems.
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In many occupations it has become essential to acquire new skills as established ones become obsolete.
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By that time, Amazon said, the drone it had requested permission to fly had become obsolete.
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Concerns around local talent, university systems, proximity to public transportation and time to operations become obsolete.
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Technologies and trends change and become obsolete or passé, but transferrable skills will be valued forever.
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So, as barriers of cost and gun regulation become obsolete, more people will own more guns.
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But that's because those companies had become obsolete technologies; they had lost their product-market fit.
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Rather than allow her job and those of her team to become obsolete, Vaughan springs into action.
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However, while plastic credit cards may become obsolete, he believes it will take longer than many expect.
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Sure, jobs will become obsolete, but we can utilize the technology we invent to create new jobs.
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Kodak, which folded after failing to see that camera film would become obsolete, is the classic example.
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DJs will never become obsolete in a club setting, but the festival market might be another story.
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But right now he appears to be eager for a fight over an issue that's become obsolete.
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The EU must foster competition and focus on protecting people rather than jobs if they become obsolete.
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They argue that by allowing people to swap out parts, Dot Boards' skateboards will never become obsolete.
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And when they become obsolete, this opens up doors for you to explore new strategies, perspectives, and projects.
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I'm driving the Volkswagen e-Golf, and perhaps just for sentimental reasons, since it's about to become obsolete.
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The risk is that new rules cost a fortune to enforce and become obsolete as technology marches on.
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The majority of professional wireless audio gear in America is about to become obsolete, and illegal to operate.
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The divisions between us on climate must become obsolete because water has no patience for man-made boundaries.
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From rolling TV carts to computer labs with clunky monitors, many parts of the classroom have become obsolete.
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By the 1990s, Foxboro Stadium had become obsolete relative to newer, more high-tech stadiums across the country.
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Just like smartphones and computers, smart TVs eventually become obsolete because they can't run the apps you like.
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First, many of the latest technical skills that are in high demand today become obsolete when technology progresses.
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It is a belief that "the liberal idea has become obsolete," as Russian President Vladimir Putin recently declared.
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Wisconsin took a risky bet on a technology product that could easily become obsolete 10 years from now.
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As a worker's time without a job grows, his professional connections might weaken and his skills might become obsolete.
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I guarantee that, if they do, they will find that issues of timely access to VA care become obsolete.
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So it's not that I want to one day leave this, it's more that I will slowly become obsolete.
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Beneath the sheen of new phones and watches was an unspoken ultimatum: Buy into Apple's lifestyle or become obsolete.
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However, trade experts say the global trade rulebook is rapidly becoming outdated and needs to keep up or become obsolete.
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This calls particular attention to how quickly technologies become obsolete, and how art tied to those forms ages with it.
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But right now he appears to be, once again, trying to pick a fight over an issue that's become obsolete.
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But that skill could become obsolete in three years or so, when machine learning advances enough to iron out the imperfections.
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Behavior Detection is threat-agnostic, and unlike technology, does not become obsolete when the adversary develops a new weapon or tactic.
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We've ceded, for the most part, that complex …Read more ReadWhat Technology Is Most Likely to Become Obsolete During Your Lifetime?
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And for everyone, we either become obsolete (meaning we stay with the values of youth and collective culture) or we individuate.
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There was kind of a sense that they would maybe become obsolete or something as civilization moved ahead and so on.
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Eventually, thanks in large part to the success of movies that aggressively bent the rules, the code started to become obsolete.
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"We cannot afford to let [the U.S. nuclear arsenal] become obsolete," Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told reporters at the Pentagon.
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As broadcast TV and land-based phone lines become obsolete, our homeland security apparatus needs to keep up with current technology.
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Of those 20, only two bring in enough revenue to recover construction costs before the networks become obsolete in 40 years.
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Answer those questions and you'll avoid spending over-the-odds on tech that's getting too dated or that's about to become obsolete.
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The testy exchange was further evidence that the president is right when he says that NATO – created in 1949 – has become obsolete.
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It was a cool product but had very limited upgradeability, and since its release Apple has allowed its internals to become obsolete.
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If the smartphone does become obsolete, it will be because companies are looking to disrupt business models that don't work for them.
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Some of that equipment has become obsolete over the past couple of years as technology has changed, two of the workers said.
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Mr. Mariotte remained convinced that nuclear power would become obsolete and be replaced by clean, renewable energy sources and greater energy efficiency.
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Knowing that what's cutting edge today may become obsolete tomorrow, developers often take a less-is-more approach to smart-home features.
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Like other memorable tracts for the times, "The Disuniting of America" blends passages of enduring relevance with much that has become obsolete.
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"A Pirate Looks at Forty" is about a middle-age crisis wherein a man's skills become obsolete before he's ready to retire.
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" Putin looks at China's rise, Trump's election and Europe's identity crisis and reaches a provocative conclusion: "the liberal idea has become obsolete.
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And the argument is that the alternative would be that these companies might go bankrupt or become obsolete in some other way.
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Should we as a society pay to retrain workers whose jobs become obsolete, or do we just get used to living in Detroit?
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Billion-dollar hardware and processing companies will become obsolete or go out of business, like what happened with Nokia, Lucent and AT&T.
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These philanthropic programs can often times only offer a specific skill set, Zukin noted, one that could become obsolete via automation or otherwise.
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Apple may have killed the MagSafe in its latest array of MacBooks, but that doesn't mean that magnetic charging cables have become obsolete.
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First, once they start, they're very hard to eliminate, even when they become obsolete or a de facto entitlement program for the elite.
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In the end, MP3 players disappeared for the same reason that so many things have become obsolete — it was completely subsumed by smartphones.
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Cashiers could become obsolete as Amazon opens more Go stores and its competitors selling similar technology succeed in signing up other retailers, too.
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Old-fashioned venous blood draws, where the patient watches as vial after vial of blood is collected, would quickly become obsolete, Theranos promised.
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It's estimated that millions of old radios will become obsolete by the end of the year, the majority of which are found in vehicles.
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That means if you have an iPhone 5 or an iPhone 5C, your expensive slab of aluminum and glass is about to become obsolete.
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No one wants to think that their own job could become obsolete, but in truth every industry will be affected by changes to technology.
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While jobs in the pharmaceutical industry may have nearly doubled in the past 25 years, one in three mechanical production jobs has become obsolete.
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And some myths are old truths that may have been appropriate at some point in time but have since become obsolete by different circumstances.
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The presidential commission warned of an "impending crisis" as voting machines bought after the hanging-chad debacle of 2000 become obsolete and break down.
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He warns that jobs that currently account for much of the workforce (truck driving and call center work, for instance) will become obsolete soon.
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He pointed out that when the iPhone launched about a decade ago, few would have expected the BlackBerry would become obsolete 10 years later.
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But when they are, the encryption we all rely on to to protect Internet servers, passwords, and email and messaging traffic may become obsolete.
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But, with the advent of new health tracking technologies, the model of handing your problem over to a physician has become obsolete, Simard claims.
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Most aviation watchers expect that the technology will become obsolete at some point in the coming years, as more people fly with their own devices.
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Other observers of the quantum-computing scene warn that much of the software written today may become obsolete should quantum technology take an unexpected turn.
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Without an active developer community like Pebble, Vector's watches in the wild will simply continue to run on their current system until they become obsolete.
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I mean, a lot of times when new technologies have come in, people have ... jobs become obsolete, but we haven't seen mass waves of unemployment.
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Even the ones that you love, the hard-working devices that serve you every day, will soon become obsolete, replaced by newer, better, shinier Things.
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College graduates enjoy higher salaries, qualify for further levels of education and are at a lower risk of ending up in jobs that become obsolete.
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Because blockchain technology is a relatively new field, there's room for many different currencies, he said, but added that bitcoin and ethereum won't become obsolete.
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As old consoles become obsolete and old games become old news, gamers fall out of touch with their digital pets and the memories they shared.
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But HP said it had an agreement with Oracle that support for Itanium would continue, without which the equipment using the chip would become obsolete.
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LG: Even if, let's say, one of those services becomes obsolete, not that your service is going to become obsolete, but we don't know, right?
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"Their locations have become obsolete, and their product mix is no longer adequately differentiated," said Herb Kleinberger, a professor of retail at NYU's Stern Business School.
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At some point in the near future the small lozenge of electronics we wear on our wrists will become obsolete, replaced by something beyond our ken.
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A. When some of the email addresses in the Mail program's memory become obsolete, you can prune the outdated entries or update them on the spot.
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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.
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Meanwhile, Gavin Belson, recently returned CEO of tech giant Hooli, begins to worry that his company is focused on old technology that will soon become obsolete.
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Defense sources, however, say the European jets are likely to become obsolete by around 2040, at which point they could no longer incorporate the latest technologies.
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Think about how many new roles and job opportunities we'll begin to see as these technologies advance and how many of today's jobs will become obsolete.
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" —Bunny W. "So many people think libraries are going to become obsolete (or already are) which is just wildly untrue, and it's tough to fight this misconception.
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Combine that with the fact that it's a cartoon, and everything feels inherently detached and silly; the laws that would usually apply to that setting become obsolete.
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The fanfare around Google's advances in neural machine translation implied that the grail was within reach—and, along with it, the moment when human workers become obsolete.
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Outerwear can be tricky for expectant dressing since you need something that will close over your growing bump, and ideally won't become obsolete once the baby arrives.
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Meanwhile, the term itself has become something of a punch line, as analysts, pundits, and even current and former players question whether the system has become obsolete.
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One defense source noted that the European jets were likely to become obsolete by around 2040, at which point they could no longer incorporate the latest technologies.
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Autonomous vehicles on our roadways and the data they provide could create environments where traffic lights become obsolete, and traffic itself becomes a thing of the past.
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If rapidly-improving artificial intelligence can provide the markets with innovations to improve the workplace, some jobs could see skyrocketing wage growth while others could become obsolete.
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It's an unfortunate reality for early adopters, especially for a technology where there's no set standard, that hardware is going to become obsolete or just stop working.
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Conservatives claim to subscribe to the ideology that the best energy forms should compete and win in the market while lesser forms can dissipate and become obsolete.
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Incumbents fail when their resources and capabilities become obsolete and they are unable to develop new capabilities themselves at a reasonable cost, or to buy these capabilities.
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The Alienware Area-51m is trying to deliver on a dream: a gaming laptop with user-upgradeable CPUs and GPUs like a desktop so it won't become obsolete.
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Even though the traditional use of the stones in Korean weaving has become obsolete, the thought of a once-used, now useless object continues to engage our senses.
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As editor Barber also interviewed a raft of world leaders and most recently made headlines in June when Russia's Vladimir Putin told him that liberalism had become obsolete.
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The ex-Barclays boss, who left the bank in July 2015, said artificial intelligence (AI) will have a profound impact on banking that could mean branches become obsolete.
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"This is not driven by the fact that these smartphones become obsolete in functionality," said Lotfi Belkhir, an entrepreneur and engineering professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
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If smokers switched exclusively to e-cigarettes over the next 85033 years, estimates project as many as 6.6 million deaths could be averted and cigarettes could become obsolete.
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In many occupations workers on company payrolls face the prospect that their existing skills will become obsolete, yet it is often not obvious how they can gain new ones.
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Fleet operations and management As the autonomous age dawns, many predict that private car ownership will become obsolete, replaced by shared AV fleets that individuals summon only when needed.
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This feature was already poised to become obsolete Instead, Apple will automatically bring back the "while using the app" choice, which prevents Uber's post-trip tracking from working anyway.
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Letter of Recommendation In the early '80s, the Roland Corporation, a Japanese electronics company, developed two machines that would soon become obsolete and change the world, in that order.
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The researchers said in the published paper that they believe their findings can help people find jobs that match their personality as new occupations emerge and others become obsolete.
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Are you worried at all that there will be a lack of communication that will result in infrastructure that in 10 years will become obsolete because of self-driving cars?
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And if you'd rather have a real, old school retro analog watch, why would you ever choose a more expensive smartwatch that will become obsolete months after you buy it?
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I'm not advising you wait because I think that digital assistants are likely to require so much more computing power in the future that your soundbar will quickly become obsolete.
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Cheap clothes might lose their shape after a wash or two, or get holes after a few tumbles in the dryer; electronics become obsolete quickly and need to be replaced.
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Ruff seems to say that technology has created a very loose sense of ownership over photography, and that the idea of a source has become obsolete in our digital age.
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But by focusing on electrification, Volvo can concentrate its limited research and development resources on new technologies rather than continuing to invest in fuel-powered motors that may become obsolete.
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"Eventually this particular router will become obsolete (which is a good thing!) as the web becomes encrypted (meaning you cant just see all the traffic)," Brain tells The Creators Project.
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So it's no surprise, then, that as today's skills continuously become obsolete due to rapid technological advances, those who embrace continuous learning will find the most success in the new economy.
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I thought it would be fun to look at some of these gadgets as the technologies that they are: where they come from, how they work, how they will become obsolete.
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Many European leaders have been openly critical of the US President, whose suggestion on the campaign trail that NATO had become "obsolete" had also led to widespread consternation across the Atlantic.
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Why it matters: While artificial intelligence is likely to make some jobs become obsolete, it's just as likely to create unforeseen booms in the job market, perhaps in highly-skilled positions.
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It seems that for an increasing number of tech companies, playing games over a stream—as opposed to purchasing expensive consoles that eventually become obsolete—is the way of the future.
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Only 9 percent of Trump supporters are worried that their job will become obsolete as a result of technology compared with 15 percent of those who don't approve of the president.
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The two-factor authentication method that so many banks rely on, for instance, will likely become obsolete as financial incumbents and insurgents look to transition into surefire, data-backed, AI solutions.
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The same goes for a smart hub or smart TV—The Compute Card will allow you to make these devices smart again when their brains become obsolete after a couple of years.
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From a content creator's standpoint, he made the point that Snapchat had become obsolete, picking at its terrible quality on Android, and its failure to keep up with copycat features by Instagram.
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Moreover, multi-year retraining processes too frequently train people for jobs that become obsolete very shortly thereafter—certainly more quickly than had been the case under the old-school, lifelong "career" timeline.
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But while the bot site makers didn't do the research on which jobs will become obsolete, they do have a good grasp of which jobs done by humans are most at risk.
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Once promoted as a useful, low-cost way to provide a sense of safety, the waiting areas have become obsolete, some say — relics of an unruly era in the subway system's past.
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For a few years after their deployment in 212 they were among the deadliest objects on Earth, but by 1965 the Atlas had become obsolete and the 72 missile sites were decommissioned.
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"One of the reasons we did not step forward and regulate is because the industry is changing so fast and what you release today might become obsolete in six months," he said.
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But experts think many of those companies will instead have to go out of business — and that will leave us without much of a pipeline to replace existing drugs as they become obsolete.
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Still unhappy opponents say pipelines are inherently unsafe, prolong the use of climate-damaging fossil fuels, and will become obsolete relics as America shifts entirely to renewable energy in a decade or so.
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In an era when the conventional political playbook has been turned on its head, House Democrats need to try something different and move away from a timeworn model that has essentially become obsolete.
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Although no one likes to talk about age, health and physical disabilities, Ms. Roth said it is important to discuss these issues so an expensive renovation doesn't become obsolete in a few years.
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However, she doubts that marriage will ever truly become obsolete in the U.S. Only 23% of Americans say legal rights and benefits were a motivation for marriage — for 88%, the reason is simply love.
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"This deal is a negative from HCL's standpoint," said Sudheer Guntupalli, an analyst with Ambit Capital in Mumbai, adding that HCL would have to keep investing in these products to ensure they don't become obsolete.
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In a statement late on Wednesday, SGL - whose carbon fibre is used in auto parts and wind turbines - said its forecasts for the 2020-2022 period had become obsolete and restructuring measures were being considered.
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With the advent of features that make shopping online easier and more convenient than ever — like free 2-day shipping and in-store pickup — it can seem like brick-and-mortar stores will become obsolete.
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Naturally, there's a danger in including a cable modem in a router as one piece could become obsolete before the other but I would argue that most consumers upgrade their equipment every few years anyway.
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But Frank's instinct to demean the ghost before a global audience—a topical subject in the age of geopolitical Twitter feuds—defangs Ernest's traditionalist scare tactics, which have become obsolete in the age of smartphones.
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The priority would often be to invest in schools, so children get a fair start in life, and in adult education, so that older people whose skills become obsolete as a result of technology can retrain.
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The Slam and Loud effects that currently exist to enlarge your text bubble may quickly become obsolete, should echo roll out in the final version of iOS 11, but we'll know more about that on Sept. 12.
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Ok, if you want to buy or craft some gear as you go, I can't really stop you, but you're not really going to get a lot of bang for your buck since items become obsolete so quickly.
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Workers at the lower end struggle to keep up with changes in the labor market that they are less equipped to handle, as some specialized skills become obsolete and workers lack the skills to transition to new sectors.
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Scientists are looking to DNA for data storage for several reasons: it can pack tons of information into very small molecules, it'll never become obsolete (unlike CDs or cassettes), and it can last for tens of thousands of years.
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So while Uber can cash in on all the good PR it wants by saying it cares about privacy, the fact remains that this feature was already poised to become obsolete as soon as users started updating their phones.
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But even if the new economy spits out these new jobs, the question is how rapidly that happens and how often a person will have to learn a new career, because their skills have been overtaken or become obsolete.
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"Any positive impact on the PMI is likely to be short-lived, however, as any gains in the near-term are reversed later in 2019 when safety stocks are eroded or become obsolete," IHS Markit director Rob Dobson said.
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This month, President Michel Temer's government issued a blueprint for economic growth that made the case that sustained growth would require lowering tariffs and retraining workers to steer them away from occupations that have become obsolete or less competitive.
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Labor costs and, subsequently, menu prices would be lowered, tipping would become obsolete, restaurants could more heavily invest in higher quality ingredients, and profits would increase for business owners in the process — or at least that&aposs the theory.
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"The value proposition [of legacy competitors] was historically around finding the best travel options for the business traveler, which has become obsolete today when you have tools like Skyscanner and Google Flights," co-founder and CEO Saad Berrada told me.
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To underscore how much depth matters to competitiveness, the PGA Championship usually lands between 95 and 100 players from the world top 100— and given the depth of the game globally, the notion of an "upset winner" has practically become obsolete.
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So when Liz says, regretfully, "Rosemary says that women become obsolete in this business when there's no one left that wants to see them naked," it's not just a generic one-off line about how ageist and sexist Hollywood is.
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She added television to her résumé and, at some point, Sydney Pollack, who had directed Ms. Lange in "Tootsie," told her that it was "over" because the mid-budget film, long a cinematic sweet spot for adults, had become obsolete.
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Indeed, the smartphone of the future won&apost need to be powerful anymore, and it won&apost become obsolete as quickly; it&aposll essentially become a slab of glass screen with battery attached to it, ready to stream our apps.
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This is the sort of idea that leads thinkers like Yuval Harari, an Israeli historian, to suggest that ever more capable information technology means that not just free-market economics but also liberal democracy might "become obsolete" over the coming century.
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And just like that, humanity draws one step closer to the singularity, the moment when the machines grow so advanced that humans become obsolete: A robot has learned to autonomously assemble an Ikea chair without throwing anything or cursing the family dog.
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Tech review sites with otherwise critical eyes regularly recommend underwhelming Fire tablets as kid's toys or streaming screens, eagerly announce when Echo devices go on sale, and never mention where all those cheap devices end up when they age, break, or become obsolete.
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Appealing to EU leaders for greater powers to fight tech-savvy criminals, Catherine De Bolle said its member states do not yet have the domestic regulations or technology to fill the policing gap that will open up when 4G networks become obsolete.
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"We buy them straight from the grower for a fair price and turn them into healthy food," she said, adding that their ultimate aim is to change consumer behavior so that the reject carrots are sold in shops and Kromkommer's work become obsolete.
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Cost: $42.97 on AmazonRead more:16 products all lazy people will want to buy immediatelyGame-changing products that will make your life easierProducts you only need to buy once in your life14 household items that will become obsolete over the next 10 years
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Or, we could wake up one day to discover that musicians themselves have become obsolete: Google is currently working to adapt its neural networks to create original music, while Spotify has hired a computer scientist specializing in teaching AI to emulate popular music styles.
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Soon enough, security questions like "What's the name of the street you grew up on?" and "What's your maternal grandfather's last name?" will become obsolete, as new digital authentication practices continue to surface to answer and verify the most important one: "Who are you?"
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The decision: The Supreme Court held 5-4 that the EPA had the right to regulate heat-trapping gases coming from automobiles, and that the Clean Air Act's definition of air pollutant had been written with sweeping language so that it would not become obsolete.
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Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch - 23 GB - 256 GB SSD - for $1,500 ($300 off): We expect Apple to supplant this version with a 14-inch MacBook Pro later this year, but the 13-inch MBP is a strong laptop that won't become obsolete anytime soon.
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Others think they can get away with claiming "legitimate interest", which is another legal basis for processing personal data allowed by the GDPR—an optimistic interpretation, and one that is likely to become obsolete with the ePrivacy directive, another privacy law the EU is working on.
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Experts now believe that the Islamic State was actually adopting a strategy first put forward by an earlier operations leader for Al Qaeda, who argued that the group would become obsolete if it worked only on 603/260-size plots that took months or years to mount.
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But for now, while investors might be unhappy with the company's short-term sales, the rest of us should cheer it as a sign of progress in giving customers what they want: sturdy, reliable phones that don't become obsolete as soon as a new model arrives.
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The longest piece, "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," is about people who invent childlike artificial intelligences called "digients" to sell as novelties — disconcertingly compared to pets throughout — and then refuse to give up the care of them when their popularity wanes and learning environments become obsolete.
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It sponsors a low-cost online master's degree in computer science from Georgia Tech's outstanding school of computing and offers a wide variety of online courses to retrain its thousands of employees who work in jobs that will become obsolete, such as landline installation and repair.
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Carbon Tracker, a group which monitors climate policy, estimates that $532bn of existing and planned gas projects would become obsolete if the world pursues the aggressive emission cuts needed to limit temperature increases to below 2C above pre-industrial levels, as agreed in the Paris accord.
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Investors have worried for years that this empire of aisles and tills run from Bentonville, Arkansas, would become obsolete—what did Walmart's executives, schooled in the arts of beating up baked-beans suppliers, know about the slick world of e-commerce being dreamed up in Silicon Valley and Seattle?
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"The sanctions were motivated by a number of events that took place, (but) it is my belief that those events will no longer exist ... If the reasons that led to the sanctions will no longer exist ... they will naturally become obsolete," Antonio Guterres told reporters in Addis Ababa.
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Occasionally the vehicles slowed and swerved to pass one of the antique trucks and sedans that had started to become obsolete in the middle of the previous century but could still be seen in towns like this because progress is a cannibal and here there had never been much worth eating.
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According to the Oxford English dictionary, the word can still be used today to describe a psychiatrist who assesses a court defendant's mental competency, but its usage to refer to psychologists and psychiatrists in general has become obsolete — something that Dr. Cahn says may be attributed to the term "psychiatrist" becoming more standardized.
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"Beneath all the concrete problems it raises, an intriguing question lies at the heart of the book: Given the rise of algorithmic decision making, the ability to outsource tasks to the crowd, and such technologies as blockchain, will the corporation as we know it become obsolete?" writes Strategy + Business reviewer James Surowiecki.
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I made a conscious decision to design an entire season around the theme of nature, which is very fruitful soil because we know how many composers took inspiration there, but at the same time to make people aware that all this beauty — which was a given for all previous generations — could become obsolete.
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Hypothetically, if someone made a fictitious film about a company that designs its products to become obsolete, doesn't let you fix your own phone, and outsources its phone manufacturing to a company in China that uses underpaid and exploitative child labor, would Apple allow iPhones to be used by the CEO of that company, in the movie?
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In a sense, intelligence organizations have not internalized the complexity that characterizes the present time – a complexity which requires abandoning the dichotomous (within and outside) perception of the intelligence establishment, as well as the understanding of the intelligence enterprise and government bodies as having a monopoly on knowledge; concepts that have become obsolete in an age of decentralization, networking and increasing prosperity.
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"While the evidence on how regulations and the economy interact is mixed, we all agree that major rules that have become obsolete or costlier than expected, over time can reduce productivity, increase costs, and lower economic output; in economic terms, this means increased deadweight loss that prevents the U.S. economy from achieving its potential," the groups wrote in the Thursday letter.
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What Hanson predicts: In a recent Ted Talk, Hanson argues that in a world in which we have figured out how to recreate the human brain using computers, human labor will instantaneously become obsolete, because "they just can't compete" with artificial brains that will be as capable as the most intelligent humans (though not more so, as Hanson is not theorizing about the so-called "singularity" when artificial intelligence becomes super-human).
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