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And unlike tech skills, which now obsolesce at an average rate of every 18 months, soft skills will grow even more essential as technology keeps racing onward. Anne Fisher, Fortune, "How to succeed in your January job hunt," 22 Jan. 2020

What a bizarre triumph for a company so eager to obsolesce our televisions. Chris Richards, Washington Post, "How did YouTube become the most popular music streaming site? By sounding like the world itself.," 31 July 2019

People talk on landlines and watch black-and-white movies; the internet and mobile devices have seemingly obsolesced. Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, "New Books," 10 May 2019

The pattern such boondoggles follow is predictable: the services insist that new weapons are needed to replace our rapidly obsolescing fleets. Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, "The Military-Industrial Virus," 10 June 2019

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