Is obsolescence a problem that needs to be fixed , or a necessary evil of the technological world ?
过时是否是个该解决的问题，或是技术世界中必需的罪恶呢？
Indeed , they often act as a linguistic fossil record , preserving objects and behaviour that have long since fallen into petrified obsolescence .
事实上，它们常常充当的是语言上的化石记录，保存着那些很早前就已经变成僵化的过时货的对象与行为。
In the 1980s , another group of xerox scientists proposed an even more radical idea : the personal computer was destined , like its predecessor the mainframe computer , for obsolescence .
