‘Nothing has changed but its obsolescence. It’s still functional, just not popular.’

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.

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.