The word obsolescence comes from the latin obsolescent — meaning ‘falling into disuse.’ However, I am more interested in ‘planned obsolescence’ sometimes (according to the dictionary), used as a corporation’s “policy of producing consumer goods that rapidly become obsolete and so require replacing, achieved by frequent changes in design, termination of the supply of spare parts, and the use of nondurable materials.” “In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so that it becomes obsolete…” Wikipedia. For example, according to THE...

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