Quotes About Obsolescence

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

nuestra era de pensamientos y cosas calculadas para generar «un impacto máximo y una obsolescencia instantánea», tal como decía George Steiner.

It's strange to learn that in Livermore, California, one of the first light bulbs ever manufactured remains lit, over a hundred years after it was first switched on. In the earliest example of planned obsolescence, it took a group decision by light-bulb manufacturers in the 1950s to specifically limit the life of all subsequently made bulbs to a few years, in order to ensure that people would have to come back and buy more.

The marvels of today's modern technology include the development of the soda can, which when discarded will last forever ... and a $7,000 car which when properly cared for will rust out in two or three years." --Guido Sarducci

Electronic banking is still a clumsy way to replace a stamp. And interactive television seems to have vanished even before the ink dried on the mega-announcements.

It's yet another example illustrating that the person who is the star of a previous era is often the last one to adapt to change, the last one to yield to the logic of a strategic inflection point and tends to fall harder than most.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

It had to happen to me sometime: sooner or later, I would have to lose sight of the cutting edge. That moment every technical person fears - the fall into knowledge exhaustion, obsolescence, techno-fuddy-duddyism - there was no reason to think I could escape it forever.

The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savings of the society continuously invested in the cutting-edge technologies. And those technologies which are obsolescent get dropped out.

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

Armamentos, deuda universal y obsolescencia planificada: ésos son los tres pilares de la prosperidad de Occidente.

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste and money-lenders were abolished, you'd collapse.

Partially true. But a large part of aging is due to a form of planned obsolescence.

Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not.

I confess that, like public figures from bygone days or an entertainer that hadn't been heard from in eons, I didn't know AIM, as we all called it, still existed at all.

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.

Dinosaurs have a bad public image as symbols of obsolescence and hulking inefficiency; in political cartoons they are know-nothing conservatives that plod through miasmic swamps to inevitable extinction.

A typical tech toy. High-end this year, everywhere next year, nowhere after that until the antiquarians revival.