We simply cannot wait until a technological fait accompli makes any debate obsolete.

ECONOMIST: On fracking, Balkan airlines, robots, Europe

Markets can shift incredibly fast, and make any success formula obsolete.

FORBES: Disrupt to Thrive in 2011

Microsoft tried to argue that its Windows operating system was under constant threat and could be made obsolete at any moment.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Cover: 'Microsoft Enjoys Monopoly Power...'

Because office buildings, bank branches and shopping malls had been rendered technologically obsolete, any price was too high to pay for them, or for the REITs that owned and managed them.

FORBES: REIT Bubble

"Any model that relies on that is obsolete, " said Mr Turpin.

BBC: How do book towns survive in the age of the e-reader?

Of course, just a few years later the whole sector was made obsolete by Netflix, and any advantage Blockbuster would have gained would have only been temporary.

FORBES: Obama Looking Like Job Killer In Chief

The funding model was set up when the ICC had far less income, in order to make sure it could weather any financial storms, but it has become obsolete as the game has expanded, and contributed to a sense among the full members that they own the organization.

WSJ: A Woolf at Cricket Chiefs' Door

They include the legacy of high debt and earlier deficits, trade unions that have consistently thwarted reform, and obsolete industries producing goods so shoddy that they would be uncompetitive at almost any exchange rate.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

Few can any longer afford to rest on their laurels, or to rely on experience which rapidly becomes obsolete because of technological change.

ECONOMIST: Career evolution | The

While meant as reference book it is also quite readable, or at least skimmable, and with no disrespect to Michael Jackson or any of the other historically great writers on whisky, it makes every other book I own pretty much obsolete.

FORBES: The Best Whisky Book Ever - A Must Read For Drinkers!