Sentences with phrase «increasing obsolescence»

As with the status of books, she calls attention to the increasing obsolescence of traditional paper - based maps, in a world easily travelled with GPS.

Like in the past, new policy innovations are currently being explored to find new ways to deal with the social pressure resulting from the increasing obsolescence of manual labour, as can be seen in the experimenting with Universal Basic Income in Finland.

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Year after year, decade after decade, we witness the spectacle of Detroit's efforts to sell ever - increasing numbers of cars designed for quick obsolescence, though it has been clear for some time now that considerations of both space and air quality dictate that we move toward some alternative transportation system.

Third, researchers have suggested that technological change may play a role in changing labor and profit shares, either by increasing the productivity of capital, or by increasing the rate of worker's obsolescence and thereby reducing their bargaining power.»

The minor cost increase for XOVWM versus a QuikSCAT clone reflects the reality that even an attempt to duplicate the existing QuikSCAT would incur many of the nonrecurring costs of XOVWM, in part because of the long delay since QuikSCAT's initial development and the obsolescence or unavailability of the hardware components used.

But with the rise of cheaply mass - produced plastics, increased levels of consumerism, and planned obsolescence in many products, our modern culture now creates waste on an unsustainable scale.

But as time passes the custodian's role increases due to a variety of factors, but especially technological obsolescence, which can profoundly affect documentary content and form.

The environmental advocacy group, whose name roughly translates to «stop planned obsolescence,» claims that Apple violated French laws which prohibit companies from intentionally reducing the lifespan of a product to increase the replacement rate.

An 11 percentage point increase in the proportion of Americans who think marriage is «obsolete» is significant given the harshness of the judgment expressed, but the datum does not indicate whether the respondents believe that marital obsolescence is a good thing.