obsolescence

Meanwhile, newspapers continue to fight an uphill battle to get users to pay for digital content as their print editions fade into obsolescence.

Existential obsolescence breeds anger, resentment, irrationality and violence.

At 39 — and with a pair of largely unsuccessful LPs behind her in 2020’s “Smile” and 2017’s “Witness” — Perry is already past the age when female pop stars encounter the brutal disinterest of a music business preoccupied with novelty and youth; indeed, she was battling the perception of obsolescence even before the emergence this past summer of Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan, both of whom no doubt put the scare into a superstar like 31-year-old Ariana Grande.

With each technological shift, the scintillation of new possibilities meets the tug of obsolescence.

Though 24 still stood on Seattle sidewalks in 1950, the city considered banning them in 1953 because of their “obsolescence and homeliness,” the same report said.