Sentences with phrase «of obsolete technology»

This is the first solo show of the artist's work in a London public institution since 1989 and brings together works from 1981 to 2015, including representations of obsolete technology; laptops, games consoles, black - and - white televisions and incandescent lightbulbs that highlight the increasing transience of innovation.

Craig - Martin presents his trademark impersonality in the form of obsolete technology; slick, glowing, and intentionally flat.

These vignettes are abstracted, and combined with other clear and reflective plastic, form a teetering conglomerate that is like a graveyard full of obsolete technology.

Michael Craig - Martin's painting Cassette (2002) is an oversized depiction of an obsolete technology.

Serpentine Gallery, London, November 2015 — 14 February 2016 Transience, Michael Craig - Martin RA's first solo show since 1989, takes images of obsolete technology and transforms them into a commentary on the disposable nature of innovation today.

The exhibition will contain his famous images of obsolete technologies and other, less familiar, works.

Not exact matches

Tesla's much - anticipated debut of an electric semi-truck on Thursday night has spurred debate about the future of trucking, especially how advances in autonomous driving technology could make many truck driving jobs obsolete.

Other top executives in the field, such as Deutsche Bank CEO John Cryan, have warned in the past that technology will result in plenty of banking jobs becoming obsolete as automation replaces roles once occupied by people.

A healthy paranoia will keep you looking for ways to stay ahead of rivals and keep abreast of new technologies and changing customer needs that could make your company's product obsolete.

For huge swaths of the knowledge - working, laptop - or tablet - toting world, technology has already made a desk in an office obsolete, or at least optional.

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Combine this sort of technology with robots that can write and we're one step closer to being obsolete.

In other words, devices that in some way communicate each other, gather data, and greatly surpass the technology of the tools they are replacing — deeming them obsolete.

«The initial machines we bought about four years ago when we started the glasses business were at the top of the technology heap, but now those are obsolete,» Hardy says.

We are now at a tipping point where the power of computer chips, sensors, Internet broadband and cloud storage is creating a platform for powerful work technologies that will make the traditional office obsolete.

Some of our competitors may respond more quickly to new or emerging technologies and changes in driver preferences or requirements that may render our services less desirable or obsolete.

It seemed to slip their minds that high - technology companies work ceaselessly to make their own products obsolete, not just those of their competitors — that they are inherently self - destructive.

Leaders die, products become obsolete, markets change, new technologies emerge, and management fads come and go, but core ideology in a great company endures as a source of guidance and inspiration.

Thanks to social trends, especially those arising from technology and transhumanism, our familiar forms of argument are becoming obsolete.

(c) The development of the technology of war — which has made the national military establishments largely obsolete.

Weinberg:»... not only our political organizations are being rendered obsolete by the march of military technology, but also our economic organizations are being rendered obsolete by the march of civilian technology.

We do know, however, that the speed of change in communications technology is such that each innovation is rendered obsolete within a few years.

The poor investment on cold chain logistics and obsolete technologies, old amenities hinder the development of cold chain market.

Technology rendered the job obsolete, but the ancient way of harvesting salt still pertained, so in 1998 he returned to Maldon to work for his father, Clive, who had taken over for Cyril in the»70s.

And I am not suggesting that tweets from the chamber should be protected by parliamentary privilege... But in this age of immediate crowd - sourced mass communication, the idea that the Commons chamber can cut itself off from modern technology and social media is as doomed as when written reports of Commons debates were banned in the 18th century, or when discussion of current Commons business on the radio was not allowed until the 1950s, or, indeed, as obsolete as the ban on television itself before 1989.

Open Senate was developed as part of an overall Information Technology modernization project in the Senate, initiated with the election of a new Senate Majority in January 2009, which has yielded in excess of $ 500,000 in annual net savings to date; savings have derived primarily from increasing the Senate's ability to create and maintain technology in - house, including using a combination of free open - source software and low - cost Software - As - A Service (SaaS) solutions whenever possible, thus enabling the Senate to cancel unnecessary maintenance and service contracts, and decommission expensive obsolete computeTechnology modernization project in the Senate, initiated with the election of a new Senate Majority in January 2009, which has yielded in excess of $ 500,000 in annual net savings to date; savings have derived primarily from increasing the Senate's ability to create and maintain technology in - house, including using a combination of free open - source software and low - cost Software - As - A Service (SaaS) solutions whenever possible, thus enabling the Senate to cancel unnecessary maintenance and service contracts, and decommission expensive obsolete computetechnology in - house, including using a combination of free open - source software and low - cost Software - As - A Service (SaaS) solutions whenever possible, thus enabling the Senate to cancel unnecessary maintenance and service contracts, and decommission expensive obsolete computer systems.

«Here at the beginning of a new resistance to this obsolete technology, we see GM hidden behind a fortress.

But he's concerned about the precedent of borrowing long - term to pay for technology like iPads, that could be obsolete well before the bonds are paid off.

A report from the ASCE gave transit around the state a C -, estimating the city's subway, bus and commuter rails need $ 68 billion of work over the next 20 years, plus new technology to replace obsolete equipment.

Yet in two of the main world powers, the European Union and the United States, these laws are outdated and obsolete, and therefore should be reformulated to cover current mobile technology.»

NAVS hopes that with the continued development of alternative methods, «animal tests, like the slide rule, will someday be made obsolete by advancements in technology.»

NCC will replace metal and plastic car parts and could make nonorganic plastics obsolete in the not - too - distant future, says Phil Jones, director of new ventures and disruptive technologies at the French mineral processing company IMERYS.

The extended Sleipner area has more than enough capacity to store all of Norway's CO2 emissions for many years and potentially could also store a portion of the rest of Europe's CO2 emissions well into the future — by which time clean energy technologies may have rendered CCS obsolete.

It would also have been nice to see a mention of direct reprogramming, the latest stem cell technology that may one day make even iPSCs obsolete.

Another hurdle med schools face when trying to delve into sequencing technology is the immense cost for the sequencing machines, especially when many of them become obsolete in just a few years.

This mise - en - scene is pure wunderkammer — so fixated on cramming every inch of the frame with knickknacks, piles of papers, obsolete technologies (production designer Maria Djurkovic must've been given one hell of a typewriter budget), and accumulated dust that the characters themselves begin to resemble rare, preserved specimens.

In other words, the tape drive that created an archival copy of Skyfall in December 2012 wouldn't be able to read the original 2006 copy of Casino Royale — the technology becomes obsolete faster than James Bond is recast.»

Maybe this kind of technology is the future of film — who knows, maybe a decade or two from now, cinemas will be obsolete, and we'll be living the worlds of our favourite characters right along with them.

Only one of their flicks could make this list; We went with You've Got Mail over the almost equally great Sleepless In Seattle because it's more charming and the obsolete technology is hilarious.

Sereno mentioned the pace of the obsolescence of technology, how «something is obsolete before we even let the dust settle on it.»

Source and purchase IT equipment: Servers, routers, switching devices, firewalls, load balancers, and storage (minimum of $ 10,000 every 5 years once technology obsolete).

This enables schools to progress with the latest technology and equipment and avoiding being left with obsolete equipment to dispose of.

Economic and social changes — from innovations in technology to the advent of new civic challenges — always brings about new businesses and careers while rendering old ones obsolete.

For modern organizations, the threats to survival come from new competitors, the ups and downs of the stock market, and innovative technologies that render the current business model obsolete.

The technology will be obsolete in two years (that's why Apple is so rich) and thus represents an enormous waste of money.

OTs are most likely out of the question here (yes, modern systems, especially ones featuring variable compressors, are pretty always based on a TXV, because orifice tubes are obsolete technology that can't allow for any superheat adjustment.

The patented BMW VALVETRONIC technology steplessly adjusts intake valve timing, rendering the throttle valve of earlier engines obsolete.

Now, if you will permit me to make a (hopeful) observation of my own regarding USB - C: once this technology has been added to upcoming versions of Apple's iPad, the lack - of - USB - port criticism will hopefully become obsolete.

To see it debut in June next year would surely not make any of the other tablet manufacturers quake in their boots, as this technology is obsolete even as we speak, although one needs to bear in mind that this is a dedicated eReader and not a tablet that does e-books.

There is the risk that this company goes out of business due to competition, their product could be rendered obsolete by new technology, a poor economy in general, you name it.