The Death of the Trade Press
Obsolescence is a familiar and friendly concept to engineers. In fact, it is our job. We are professional creators of obsolescence. Each day, we go to work with the goal of making some previous work of engineering obsolete. Our revised rodent retention device must surpass, supersede and exceed all previous versions, else we have failed.
Audio Cassettes – gone. Rotary-dial telephones – expurgated, and not a moment too soon. Typewriters, cathode ray tubes, mimeograph machines – all banished to the backwaters of vintage-retro curiosity by our hard-working, innovation-happy profession.
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