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Accelerated Obsolescence

Accelerated Obsolescence is shortening the useful life of everything The useful life of almost everything is getting shorter. That does not necessarily mean things are breaking faster, disappearing faster or physically wearing out sooner. More often, they remain perfectly functional while becoming less useful, less competitive or less economically sensible

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Machine Independence

Machines have always done things for humans. The more interesting shift is what happens when they begin doing things without us. Machine systems are moving beyond tools that simply respond to human instructions. Increasingly, machines can observe conditions, make decisions, initiate actions and interact with other systems with progressively less